Tag: Asteroids

PLANETS and asteroids may be smashing into each other by the thousand around monster black holes.
Dust from the collisions could explain why many of these colossal objects, which would otherwise shine brightly as they swallow nearby matter, are hidden from view.

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Veteran astronomer Ned Wright is already considered pretty smart. But soon hell be getting wise.

Thats WISE as in Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the NASA spacecraft set for launch on December 11 that will provide the most comprehensive examination of the sky ever recorded in infrared radiation. Wright, of the University of California, Los Angeles, leads the $320 million robotic mission, which for at least nine months will map the sky in four bands of infrared wavelengths. These wavelengths, ranging from 3.3 micrometers to 23 micrometers, are absorbed by Earths atmosphere and cant be seen from the ground.