NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky

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Ever wonder how may stars up there in a cloudless night time sky??NASA has released an image that can help you answer that question. NASA has released a gigantic catalog of the night sky that contains more than 563
million stars, galaxies, asteroids, planets, and objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.


It took NASA 2 years of capturing more than 2.7 million images of the sky, NASA created an epic panorama showing the entire sky by stitching together 18,000 of those images.

Here is the panoramic view of the picture. Or if you want to download 73.5MB photograph of it here.

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