NASA Unveils Solar System Atlas (Online)

[MindMover]

NASA has released a new atlas of more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many never seen before.

The more than 18,000 images were taken by the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE), NASA’s infrared space telescope.

With WISE, scientists discovered Y Dwarf stars, the dimmest stars of the brown dwarf family. By solar standards, they’re exceptionally cold: One discovered in 2011 had a temperature of only 80 degrees Fahrenheit. By comparison, our sun has a scalding surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/solar-system-atlas/?

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Lot better than comic books.......this is the real stuff....

Here is the direct link to online pics..... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20120314.html

and here............ http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html

[Systematic Chaos]

1. An 80 degree star? Can I adopt one and bring it home?

[pokerfan]

3. I guess the habitable zone is the surface itself

Astronomers have found the coolest star – temperature-wise, that is – although some would argue it should not be called a star. It is approximately 40 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Lyra the Harp.

Using data from the WISE satellite, scientists located a Y-class brown dwarf star with a temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius). In other words, although we think of stars as blazing hot, this star is cooler than the human body.

http://earthsky.org/space/stars-are-hot-right-not-this-star

[JFN1]

2. Most excellent find.

Thanks for the post! Big K&R!

[longship]

4. Solar system?

Sounds more like universe, or galactic atlas. Oh well. Science illiteracy is rampant.

[madokie]

5. I believe one can get lost for days in there