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Space Photography Highlights: Unforgettable Celestial Wonders and Cosmic Moments

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft launched to Earth orbit in 2009 and was placed in hibernation in 2011. Then, in 2013, the probe was reactivated for a new mission called NEOWISE that centered on hunting for asteroids and comets.

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Space Photography Highlights: Unforgettable Celestial Wonders and Cosmic Moments
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    Behold! These gorgeous never-before-seen space images are from a NASA space telescope that should have died long ago

    Behold! These gorgeous never-before-seen space images are from a NASA space telescope that should have died long ago

    "We know there are more things to discover in the NEOWISE data that we just haven't noticed yet." NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) …

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