{"id":3681,"date":"2010-02-18T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:36:08","slug":"nasas-wide-field-infrared-survey-explorer-takes-pretty-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Takes Pretty Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday NASA started releasing pictures from their latest orbital telescope<\/a>, WISE. WISE is an infrared telescope that’s doing a whole-sky survey. It’s also looking for near-earth objects, asteroids, and comets. This thing is extremely sensitive — it’s about 100 times more sensitive than previous infrared telescopes — and it’s taking a lot of pictures. A lot<\/i> of pictures, more than new parents who’ve just bought a DSLR. It’s taking a picture every 11 seconds, and will end up with some 1.5 million pictures over its ten month life.<\/p>\n

So how do the pictures look?<\/p>\n

\"Infrared<\/div>\n

That’s the Andromeda galaxy, some 2,500,000 light years away. And there’s plenty more space porn where that came from<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday NASA started releasing pictures from their latest orbital telescope, WISE. WISE is an infrared telescope that’s doing a whole-sky survey. It’s also looking for near-earth objects, asteroids, and comets. This thing is extremely sensitive — it’s about 100 times more sensitive than previous infrared telescopes — and it’s taking a lot of pictures. A … Continue reading NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Takes Pretty Pictures<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t