Last Month, Post Chronicle says (in WISE Spots Its First Near-Earth Asteroid) NASA says its wide-field infrared survey explorer, called WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid....

2 Months Ago, Lisa Grossman, Science News from Wired says (in New Sky-Mapping Infrared Telescope Sees First Light) This first image is a good sign of things to come, said WISE mission scientist David Leisawitz of NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It shows that the telescope is in focus and picking up details in infrared wavelengths.

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