Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer
- All
- News
-
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nears Completion with New Assembly
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken a major step forward with the delivery of its Optical Telescope Assembly to Goddard Space Flight Center. Designed to enhance infrared observations of the cosmos, the assembly includes a primary mirror and supporting optics capable of capturing faint celestial phenomena. This milestone ensures the t...
-
NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
-
Citizen Scientists Uncover Cold New World Near Sun
A brown dwarf over 100 light years away from the Sun has been discovered using a new citizen-science tool that helps astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system.
-
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nears Completion with New Assembly
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken a major step forward with the delivery of its Optical Telescope Assembly to Goddard Space Flight Center. Designed to enhance infrared observations of the cosmos, the assembly includes a primary mirror and supporting optics capable of capturing faint celestial phenomena. This milestone ensures the t...
-
NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
-
Citizen Scientists Uncover Cold New World Near Sun
A brown dwarf over 100 light years away from the Sun has been discovered using a new citizen-science tool that helps astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system.
