AAS: WISE first light image

Infrared sky survey spacecraft WISE releases first light image

few square degrees in Carina

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it is gorgeous

full res here

Ned's WISE

NASA WISE

I'll put up a copy of the image soon as I can - only have a printed copy right now in the mean time click through.

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Cool. Where is Nemesis?