From WISE to NEOWISE: Reassigned Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope

Credit: Artist’s concept of NASA's WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft, which was an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope active from December 2009 to February 2011. In September 2013 the spacecraft was assigned a new mission as NEOWISE to help find near-Earth asteroids and comets. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA has announced the 2009 WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) Space Telescope has a new mission and a new name: NEOWISE (Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)! The mission has been expanded two more years to hunt for asteroids and comets, especially those which might include earth trajectories. Read the NASA feature Here