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    Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) was a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers...
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    Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE, also Explorer 75 and SMEX-5) was a NASA satellite launched on 5 March 1999, on the Pegasus XL launch vehicle into...
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    that was collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. In 2014, NASA announced that the WISE survey had ruled out any object with...
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  • (2011). "The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 197 (2): 19...
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  • spectral class." August 2011: Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) discovered six objects that they classified as Y dwarfs...
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    was discovered by Kevin Luhman in 2013 using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). It is the coldest brown dwarf found yet, having a...
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  • Herschel Space Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the James Webb Space Telescope. Since putting telescopes...
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    astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. She was the deputy project scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and is the principal investigator...
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    pointings, surveying the galaxy nearly 1500 times faster than Hubble. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NASA satellite of the Explorer program James...
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    dwarf spectral class. More recently, as a member of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) team, Kirkpatrick and his research group have uncovered...
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  • on space missions including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe...
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    on NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and its extended mission, NEOWISE, both of which have played critical roles in surveying the sky in...
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  • Redshift Survey published; 2MASS completes 2012 — On March 14, 2012, a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky as imaged by Wide-field Infrared Survey...
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    asteroids, but this was disproven in 2011 using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The Baptistina family consists of darkly colored...
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    eccentric orbit by a passing star. Although sky surveys such as Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Pan-STARRS did not detect Planet Nine...
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    Telescope, 2003-2020 Herschel Space Observatory, 2009-2013 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), 2009-2024 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly...
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    Thermal links for infrared instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. SDL built and tested The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) science instrument...
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  • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on 18 June 2009. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched 14 December 2009. Solar Dynamics Observatory...
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    J0623-0456 was discovered in 2011 with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and a spectrum with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility confirmed it as a T8-dwarf...
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    2011 from data, collected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope...
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    that was collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. In 2014, NASA announced that the WISE survey had ruled out any object with...
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  • (2011-12-01). "The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 197...
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    WISE J1122+25 was discovered with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and spectroscopy with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility confirmed it as a...
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    List of space telescopes (category Infrared telescopes)
    Mapping the Infrared Sky" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2008-03-03. "Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer". NASA....
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    dwarfs. WISE J1711+3500 was discovered in 2011 with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and with a spectrum from NASA IRTF as a T8 dwarf. In 2012...
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    Galaxy. Users classify sets of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Scientists believe bubbles...
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  • asteroids.: 23  According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Kalpanachawla measures 6.947 kilometers...
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    data collected by NASA's 40 cm (16 in) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope at infrared wavelength. WISE 1828+2650 has two discovery...
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  • on 9 June 2010 by scientists working with data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft. It is named after Rosa Parks, the African-American...
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  • of 0.05 magnitude (U=2-). According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Kosmodemyanskaya...
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