The last image that will ever be taken by the WISE spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
First light images from telescopes and spacecraft are exciting ? there is the exhilaration that the equipment is working and the anticipation of all the great observations to come. This image has a little different feel to it. On February 1st, 2011, NASA?s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, took its last snapshot of the sky. This ?last light? image comes after just 13 months of service in space.
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