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WISE's large field of view and multi-wavelength infrared sight allowed it to form this complete view of the cluster, containing dozens of bright galaxies and hundreds of smaller ones. Old stars show up at the shorter infrared wavelengths, color coded blue

Saturday Space Sight: Poking Holes in Black Hole Doughnut Theory

Posted on June 7, 2014 by jtozer

Saturday Space Sight: This image shows galaxies clumped together in the Fornax cluster, located 60 million light-years from Earth.
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ARL Prototype Hardware Helps NASA Recover Images that Would be Lost at Sea

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jtozer

New hardware built by research engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is helping NASA retrieve experimental images otherwise lost at sea. The hardware weighs less than two pounds and serves as a means of locating NASA’s flight imagery recorders …
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Saturday Space Sight: Asteroid Zips By Orion Nebula

Posted on September 7, 2013 by jtozer

This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and dust near the Orion nebula. NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission, snapped infrared …
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Curiosity, Oh The Places You’ll Go!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by jtozer

In case you missed it last night, the Mars Curiosity Rover touched down on the surface  of Mars! The Mars rover Curiosity is NASA’s most advanced yet.  The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto …
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