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Constellation Orion

Visible Light

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Constellation Orion

Infrared Light

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A quarter century ago, IRAS gave us this view of the center of the Milky Way in Infrared Light

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With modern infrared detectors WISE will survey the entire sky with sensitivity and With modern infrared detectors WISE will survey the entire sky with sensitivity and resolution comparable to the view seen here.resolution comparable to the view seen here.

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WISE Mission: Flight SystemA cold 40 cm telescope

in Earth orbit

Enabled by new megapixel infrared

detector arrays

By being in space, the 40 cm WISE telescope is as powerful as 6,000 8-meter telescopes on the ground!

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WISE Mission: Flight System

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WISE Mission: Flight SystemWISE Mission: Flight System

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WISE Mission: Payload – Constructed by Space Dynamics Laboratory

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40 cm Afocal Primary Mirror40 cm Afocal Primary Mirror

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WISE Telescope AssemblyWISE Telescope Assembly

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Reimaging OpticsReimaging Optics

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Reimaging OpticsReimaging Optics

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Scan MirrorScan Mirror

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WISE Star Trackers

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WISE Star Trackers installed on Spacecraft Bus

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WISE Spacecraft Bus with Solar Panel and Star Trackers

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Fully Assembled WISE Flight System

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Fully Assembled WISE Flight System

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Fully assembled WISE Flight Systemin thermal vacuum testing chamber

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Fully Assembled WISE Flight System and WISE Science Team

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WISE Flight Systemundergoing acoustic vibration testing

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Final WISE cryostat hydrogen filling at Vandenberg Air Force Base

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Delta II rocket assembly at Vandenberg Air Force Base

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Delta II rocket assembly at Vandenberg Air Force Base

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Transporting WISE to the launch pad

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Transporting WISE to the launch pad

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Lifting WISE into the Delta II fairing

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WISE inside the Delta II Rocket Fairing

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WISE inside the Delta II Rocket Fairing

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WISE inside the Delta II Rocket Fairing

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MST Rollback Photo-op

8 hours until launch

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WISE Team and Family

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WISE Science Team

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Delta II Shadow in the Fog

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Ready to Launch!

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WISE Launch Seen from Los Angeles

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WISE cover ejected successfully on Dec. 29th, 2009

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WISE is in a 525 km Sun-synchronous orbit

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Survey operations Begin this month!

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WISE will observe most Main Belt Asteroids larger than 3 km and discover hundreds of Near Earth Objects. IR data will provide accurate diameter estimations.

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WISE will find Brown Dwarf stars in the Solar Neighborhood

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Known stars within 25 light-years of the Sun

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Stars within 25 light-years of the Sun after the WISE survey

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WISE will image the entire Galactic Plane

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WISE will image all nearby galaxies

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WISE will image all nearby galaxies

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2MASS Surveyed Large Scale Structure out to 1.3 Billion Light-years (z ~ 0.1)

WISE will survey out to 6.7 Billion Light-years (z ~ 0.5)

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Visible Light - Axel Mellinger

The Visible Sky as we known it

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Infrared Light – 2MASS, COBE, and IRAS

The Infrared Sky as we known it

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WISE Principal Investigator – Ned Wright (in Infrared Light)


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