NASA telescope offers 'new window' on universe

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15 December,2009 11:40 am

NASA launched a new infrared space telescopeWISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A Delta II rocket carried WISE into the polar orbit that is 326 miles above Earth at 6:09 am. Through WISE, NASA is hoping to get detailed information regarding hundreds of millions of unseen and far away objects in space besides comets and asteroids. According to the missions project manager at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, William Irace, WISE thundered overhead, lighting up the pre-dawn skies. All systems are looking good, and we are on our way to seeing the entire sky better than ever before.