NASA to announce new discoveries from its WISE telescope
NASA will host a news teleconference at 5:00 UTC (1 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The discoveries are related to the distant universe, including supermassive black holes and rare galaxies.
The briefing participants are:
— Daniel Stern, astronomer, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
— Peter Eisenhardt, WISE project scientist, JPL
— Jingwen Wu, astronomer, JPL
— Rachel Somerville, Downsbrough Chair in Astrophysics, Rutgers University
A link to the teleconference graphics will be available at the start of the event at: www.nasa.gov/wise
For live audio of the teleconference, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
The full set of data from WISE now available to astronomers around the world will allow for new scientific studies of the cosmos for many years to come. You can view all WISE data at the following locations:
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Awesome. I thought WISE was shut down and all that was relevant had already been reported.
WISE was shut down last year in February. All new data that we get are in fact “old” data. And, hhh, all that was relevant yet awaits to be reported or maybe not.