The red dot at the center of this image is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE .
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.
NASA's recently launched Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer opened its eyes to the starry sky today, after ejecting its protective cover.
Engineers are getting ready to eject the cover on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which launched from Vandengerg Air Force Base, Calif., on Dec. 14.
The red dot at the center of this image is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE .
This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ejected its cover.
This diagram shows a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass star and the sun.
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Go behind the scenes to see how the Delta II rocket and the WISE space telescope are prepared for launch on this exciting mission to view space through infrared eyes.
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The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as seen in infrared light. The all-sky mapping mission launched on Dec. 14, 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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With spacecraft separtion confirmed NASA's WISE space telescope beings its mission to to map the entire sky in infrared light.
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NASA Commentator Tracy Young caps the WISE launch coverage with an interview with Chuck Dovale.
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