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New NASA Sky Mapper to Hunt Stars, Galaxies, Near-Earth Asteroids 
Wired | by Ron Cowen, Science News | Thu, Dec 10
Researchers still use data generated by the now-defunct IRAS to guide high-resolution observations by large infrared telescopes. In the same way, WISE, which relies on a relatively small 40-centimeter telescope, is expected to provide an avalanche of data to help target searches by m...
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