BBC Focus Magazine

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Some pretty blue tinged images of galaxies to be had.

An assorted mix of colorful galaxies is being released today by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, or WISE. The nine galaxies are a taste of what's to come. The mission plans to release similar images for the 1,000 largest galaxies that appear in our sky, and possibly more.

"Galaxies come in all sorts of delicious flavors," said Tom Jarrett, a WISE team member at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, who studies our Milky Way's neighboring galaxies. "Our first sample shows what WISE is capable of. We can produce spectacular high-resolution images of the largest galaxies."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20110525.html

Image gallery direct

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/gallery/gallery-index.html