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WISE Observations

NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

Wow! A catalog of images and movies, with accompanying information, from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, launched in 2009: http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_images.html

This is what's left of Cassiopeia A, a super-bright, massive star that exploded 11,000 years ago. The light from the event first reached Earth around 1667 C.E.

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