{"id":187128,"date":"2024-04-10T20:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nasas-neowise-unveils-hidden-universe-of-near-earth-objects"},"modified":"2024-04-10T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:26:55","slug":"nasas-neowise-unveils-hidden-universe-of-near-earth-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nasas-neowise-unveils-hidden-universe-of-near-earth-objects","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s NEOWISE Unveils Hidden Universe of Near-Earth Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P8QJCbUDoyo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NEOWISE: Revealing Changes in the Universe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CaVpmMLE0BU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the infrared space telescope continues its long-duration survey of the universe, it is creating a unique resource for future astronomers to make new discoveries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA \u2019s NEOWISE mission has released its <a href=\"https:\/\/wise2.ipac.caltech.edu\/docs\/release\/neowise\/\">10th year of infrared data<\/a> \u2013 the latest in a unique long-duration (or \u201ctime-domain\u201d) survey that captures how celestial objects <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CaVpmMLE0BU\">change over long periods<\/a>. Time-domain astronomy can help scientists see how distant variable stars change in brightness and observe faraway black holes flaring as they consume matter. But NEOWISE has a special focus on our planet\u2019s local cosmic neighborhood, producing a time-domain infrared survey used for planetary science, with a particular emphasis on asteroids and comets.<\/p>\n<p>Short for Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, NEOWISE is a key component of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/planetary-defense\/\">planetary defense<\/a> strategy, helping the agency refine the orbits of asteroids and comets while also estimating their size. One such example is the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/planetary-defense-exercise-uses-apophis-as-hazardous-asteroid-stand-in\/\">potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis<\/a>, which will make a close approach of our planet in 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the infrared space telescope continues its long-duration survey of the universe, it is creating a unique resource for future astronomers to make new discoveries. NASA \u2019s NEOWISE mission has released its 10th year of infrared data \u2013 the latest in a unique long-duration (or \u201ctime-domain\u201d) survey that captures how celestial objects change over long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-cosmology","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}