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Asteroid Euphrosyne as Seen by WISE
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The asteroid Euphrosyne glides across a field of background stars in this time-lapse view from NASA's WISE spacecraft. WISE obtained the images used to create this view over a period of about a day around May 17, 2010, during which it observed the asteroid four times. Because WISE (renamed NEOWISE in 2013) is an infrared telescope, it senses heat from asteroids. Euphrosyne is quite dark in visible light, but glows brightly at infrared wavelengths.
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Credit lineAsteroid Euphrosyne as Seen by WISE. NASA/JPL, 2015-08-03. Public domain. ID: PIA19645.
