NASA's WISE mission hasn't let a lack of coolant slow down its infrared observing schedule.
This 3D map of the Milky Way is the best view yet of our galaxy's warped, twisted shapeThe telescope also hunted down supermassive black holes at the center of other galaxies. Using the telescope's data, scientists could devise a new technique for measuring the size of the disks of gas falling into distant black holes, which are not bright enough to be visible to other telescopes.
"We never anticipated that the spacecraft would be operating this long, and I don’t think we could have anticipated the science we’d be able to do with this much data," Peter Eisenhardt, an astronomer at NASA’s
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