Data from NASA's sky-mapping telescope (WISE) released

I saw this article and thought the space/astronomy buffs around here might find it of interest.

Data from NASA's sky-mapping telescope released

NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects.

Many of the targets in the celestial catalog released online this week have been previously observed, but there are significant new discoveries. The mission's finds include more than 33,000 new asteroids floating between Mars and Jupiter and 20 comets.

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Preliminary Data Release
April 14, 2011

WISE Image Data Service - How to Find Color Images

Unfortunately, it has been sanitized for our safety.

reply to post by Skewed


Kinda defies the point of making it public, don't it?

Of course only if the public doesn't mind seeing modified pictures.....but than you think, what in those pictures got the dry cleaners and for what reason?

We get 'sanitized pictures' comments from posters that have no avatar, just saying.........