The new telescope reveals the stealthy neighbors' stars.
Scientists claim NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope allows to see stars close to the solar system, which were previously 'invisible' to us.
In the plan to create an overall observation of the universe, WISE sky photography spacecraft (short for the wide-ranging infrared map explorer) has "spent" $ 320 million to capture the whole night sky, in which half is infrared photos.
Although hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on the best research and technology, astronomers still can't 'see' thousands of "neighbor" stars because they are too cold and dark to emit. Any obvious light.
NASA claims, their new telescope will be in orbit for about 9 months and for the first time, it will help identify stars, asteroids, dust clouds and comets that we didn't see before. can see. This will serve effectively in research and in listing jobs that can cause danger to the Earth.
Some scientists believe that even WISE can detect a few giant planets outside our solar system. Peter Eisenhardt, scientist working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Califfornia, USA, said: 'What we are doing is opening the sky in a way that was previously impossible.'
WISE will be launched on Monday next week to help scientists get more new astronomical objects.
The new telescope will be launched from the Vandenberg space launcher from Los Angeles, USA. However, the plan was postponed until at least on the weekend by an incident with the steering device's engine.
The engineers who carried out the final inspection of the Delta 2 rocket discovered that they were working very hard to overpower it.
'The telescope will turn to photos of our solar system neighbors. It will help scientists know many things that need to be studied for decades , 'Eisenhardt said.
According to the report, the telescope is almost sensitive to light in the infrared range, at 5 to 33 times longer wavelengths of visible red light.
Scientists are working with WISE to bring a telescope that can capture the sky using infrared.
Scientists added that objects emitting infrared light could have up to 10,000 asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. This will allow for an appreciation of the possibility that an asteroid might collide with the Earth. In addition, dozens of dwarf stars, lost stars and a planet farther away from Pluto can also be discovered.
Although the telescope helped detect 350,000 new astronomical objects, including many comets and dust bands, but with warm dust clouds, the image returned only 62 pixels and was quite fuzzy.
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