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Outer spacey stuff
Feb. 18th, 2010 12:33 amCassini gets its best-ever pictures of Mimas. This will please some of my LJ friends.
First pictures from WISE, including pretty pictures of the Andromeda galaxy and a comet (see also Phil Plait's article). This is a satellite that is designed to keep surveying the whole sky in the infrared. So these pictures aren't super-magnified, narrow-angle views like you'd get from the Hubble telescope; they cover relatively large chunks of the sky, such as you could see with the naked eye, except that you can't see in the infrared and we can't do these observations at all from the ground. The principal investigator is Ned Wright, whose Cosmology Tutorial I have plugged before.
First pictures from WISE, including pretty pictures of the Andromeda galaxy and a comet (see also Phil Plait's article). This is a satellite that is designed to keep surveying the whole sky in the infrared. So these pictures aren't super-magnified, narrow-angle views like you'd get from the Hubble telescope; they cover relatively large chunks of the sky, such as you could see with the naked eye, except that you can't see in the infrared and we can't do these observations at all from the ground. The principal investigator is Ned Wright, whose Cosmology Tutorial I have plugged before.