Space is the Place

NASA released a bunch of new images from the WISE mission a few days ago. Basically they're scanning the whole entire sky and taking infrared photographs of everything, capturing details they've never seen before. Some of the first images to come out are absolutely incredible!

This is a comet in the Oort Cloud (this huge sphere-shaped area where tons of comets live at the very outer reaches of our solar system). Can you even believe that? So cool. 

And this is our galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy! So awesome.  


They've got tens of thousands of images they've yet to process, and this project has only just begun... Which kind of makes me wish I was processing those files. Working at NASA would be so badass.


Here are more super cool pictures!


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/images20100216.html