Projects
WISE
With a launch scheduled for November 2009, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) will provide an all-sky survey from 3.5 to 23 microns up to 1000 times more sensitive than the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) survey.
WISE will:
- find the most luminous galaxies in the Universe,
- find the closest stars to the Sun,
- detect most main belt asteroids larger than 3 km,
- extend the 2MASS survey into the thermal infrared,
- enable a wide variety of studies ranging from the evolution of protoplanetary debris disks to the history of star formation in normal galaxies, and
- provide the essential catalog for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
