Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
From the news release...
A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, a star-forming hub in the constellation Auriga about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE scanned the sky, capturing this mosaic of stitched-together frames, it happened to catch an asteroid in our Solar System passing by. The asteroid, called 1719 Jens, left tracks across the image, seen as a line of yellow-green dots in the boxes near center. A second asteroid, designated 1992 UZ5, was also observed cruising by, as highlighted in the boxes near the upper left
Link: Wise Article
Link: Space.com Article
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