"Last light" from the NeoWISE satellite mission. The end of an era! A two-year mission that continued collecting great data over the course of ~14 years!! WISE, you were a very good little satellite. https://neowise.ipac.caltech.edu/news/neowise20240807/
Astronomer/IT staff at Perimeter Institute. Farm-raised left-handed vegetarian Canadian socialist & dad-joke appreciator.I work on big sky surveys in the optical and radio. Currently busy with the DESI survey (@desisurvey) which is taking tens of millions of galaxy spectra; and CHIME & CHORD, groundbreaking Canadian radio-astronomy experiments. I like making our data publicly available; you can browse the imaging survey we did for DESI here:https://legacysurvey.org/viewer