{"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&#8217;s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Takes Pretty Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NASA started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/multimedia\/images20100216.html\">releasing pictures from their latest orbital telescope<\/a>, WISE. WISE is an infrared telescope that&#8217;s doing a whole-sky survey. It&#8217;s also looking for near-earth objects, asteroids, and comets. This thing is extremely sensitive &#8212; it&#8217;s about 100 times more sensitive than previous infrared telescopes &#8212; and it&#8217;s taking a lot of pictures. A <i>lot<\/i> of pictures, more than new parents who&#8217;ve just bought a DSLR. It&#8217;s taking a picture every 11 seconds, and will end up with some 1.5 million pictures over its ten month life.<\/p>\n<p>So how do the pictures look?<\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/andromeda-galaxy-from-nasa-wise.jpg\" alt=\"Infrared picture of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by the WISE telescope\" title=\"Who&#039;s a pretty spiral galaxy? M31, that&#039;s who!\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/andromeda-galaxy-from-nasa-wise.jpg 500w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/andromeda-galaxy-from-nasa-wise-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s the Andromeda galaxy, some 2,500,000 light years away. And there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/multimedia\/images20100216.html\">plenty more space porn where that came from<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NASA started releasing pictures from their latest orbital telescope, WISE. WISE is an infrared telescope that&#8217;s doing a whole-sky survey. It&#8217;s also looking for near-earth objects, asteroids, and comets. This thing is extremely sensitive &#8212; it&#8217;s about 100 times more sensitive than previous infrared telescopes &#8212; and it&#8217;s taking a lot of pictures. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Takes Pretty Pictures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}