To boldly go… online: New frontier as Nasa 地位，任命するs thousands of incredible space images on the internet

By Ted Thornhill
Updated: 09:33 BST, 18 April 2011

You'll go starry-注目する，もくろむd at Nasa’s 最新の 使節団 success - because the space 機関 has uploaded thousands of amazing space snaps の上に the internet, 含むing 発射s of 以前 unseen 星雲s, 星／主役にするs and asteroids.

The colossal gallery ? 利用できる to anyone with a 関係 to the web - was taken by Nasa’s 最高の hi-tech sky-mapping telescope.

It took a staggering two and a half million pictures of the universe, which 含む 33,000 new asteroids 設立する floating between 火星 and Jupiter ? and 20 惑星s.

Heavens above: This WISE image shows the Berkeley 59 cluster of 星／主役にするs, which are 親族 babies at just a few million years old, and 似ている a cosmic rose

Since 2009 the £200million infrared telescope, called the Wide-field Infrared 調査する Explorer, or WISE, has been scanning the cosmos with the most sophisticated cameras ever （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd in space.

Its レンズs can 選ぶ up heat glow, so are able to find dusty, 冷淡な and distant 反対するs that are invisible to normal telescopes.

の中で the 注目する，もくろむ-開始 images 解放（する）d by Nasa is one of the 惑星 味方するing Spring, seen streaking across the sky with a ghostly 追跡する and the gigantic Andromeda 星雲, which lies 2.5million light-years from Earth. WISE also snapped the 素晴らしい rose-形態／調整d Berkeley 59 cluster of young 星／主役にするs, 燃やすing away in their stellar nursery.

Cosmic steaker: The 惑星 味方するing Spring and its ghostly tail was 選ぶd up by WISE's beady 注目する，もくろむs

Way to glow: The 巨大な Andromeda 星雲 can be seen with a pair of binoculars, but you'll need a £200million telescope to produce a picture like this

‘The みごたえのある new data just 解放（する）d remind us that we have many new 隣人s,’ said Pete Schultz, a space scientist at Brown University.

So far, Nasa has 解放（する）d just half of the images that WISE took and 計画（する）s to upload many more in the 近づく 未来.
WISE ran out of （原子炉などの）冷却剤 in October, making it unable to 冷気／寒がらせる its heat-極度の慎重さを要する 器具s and 観察する faraway 反対するs. So instead it has taken up 歩哨 義務s and will spend the next four months peering into the space around Earth for 潜在的に 脅すing asteroids and 惑星s.

To see the images, スピードを出す／記録につける on to www.nasa.gov/wise.