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NASA to Host News Conference on Asteroid Findings
09.26.11 - NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) on Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and implications for future research.
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NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Flaring Jet
09.20.11 - Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets.
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Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Remains a Mystery
09.19.11 - The family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit according to new observations.
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NASA'S Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars
08.23.11 - Scientists using data from NASA's WISE have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body.
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NASA's WISE Finds Earth's First Trojan Asteroid
07.27.11 - Astronomers studying observations taken by WISE discovered the first known Trojan asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth.
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Comet Hartley 2 Leaves a Bumpy Trail
07.14.11 - Comet Hartley 2 is a little bit like Hansel and Gretel, leaving behind a trail of ice crumbs as it circles the sun.
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A Night with the Stars…in a Conference Room
05.31.11 - Astronomers no longer peer through telescopes up at the night sky. The wonders of the universe can now be accessed right from a laptop.
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NASA's WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to Come
05.25.11 - An assorted mix of colorful galaxies is being released today by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, or WISE. The nine galaxies are a taste of what's to come.
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WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
04.14.11 - Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's WISE mission.
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WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' Asteroid
04.08.11 - Astronomers using data from NASA's WISE mission have found an asteroid that appears to slowly trace out a horseshoe shape in space, as seen from Earth.
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The Art of Making Stars
04.01.11 - A swirling palette of star-forming clouds can be seen in this picturesque image from WISE.
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Speed Demon Creates a Shock
03.10.11 - WISE has captured a star zipping through space like a race car driver.
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'Elephant Trunks' in Space
03.04.11 - A new image from NASA's WISE mission shows a zoo of "elephant trunks" herded together in a star-forming region.
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Can WISE Find the Hypothetical 'Tyche'?
02.18.11 - In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter.
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NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets
02.01.11 - NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system.
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Runaway Star Plows Through Space
01.24.11 - Can you tell which way the central, bright blue star is traveling in this new image from WISE?
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Partner Galaxies Wildly Different in New WISE IMAGE
01.13.11 - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies.
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A Galaxy for Everyone
12.16.10 - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, celebrates its launch anniversary with a taste of four galaxy flavors.
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WISE Sees an Explosion of Infrared Light
12.09.10 - NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer has caught sight of an unusual display of infrared colors around a supernova remnant.
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WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen in Starry Sea
11.17.10 - A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea.