A high school student’s algorithm processed 200 billion infrared detections, revealing 1.5 million cosmic objects the world had never cataloged. For more than a decade, NASA’s NEOWISE telescope scanned the entire sky in infrared. Its primary mission was hunting for asteroids near Earth, but it kept recording everything else in its view: distant stars, quasars, and galaxies. When the mission e... [6160 chars]
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