[NASA] NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Re-Enters Atmosphere, But More Discoveries Await!

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Citizen science projects enabled by data from the WISE and NEOWISE missions have given hundreds of thousands around the world the opportunity to make new discoveries. The projects can be done by anyone with a laptop and internet access and are available in fifteen languages. No U.S. citizenship required.

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(Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as expected. Launched in 2009 as the WISE mission, the spacecraft has been mapping the entire sky at infrared wavelengths over and over for nearly fifteen years. During that time, more than one hundred thousand ******** scientists have used these data in citizen science projects like the

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This citizen science work has led to more than 55 scientific publications. Highlights include:

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  , a kind of compact star-forming region.

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  , long lived accretion disks around low-mass stars.

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  down to effective temperature ~400 K.

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Although the spacecraft is no longer in orbit, there is plenty of work to do. The WISE/NEOWISE data contain trillions of detections of astronomical sources – enough to keep projects like

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busy making new discoveries for years to come. Join one of these projects today to help unravel the mysteries of the infrared universe!

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Nov 04, 2024

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