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NASA's NEOWISE telescope is used to hunt for asteroids and comets that could be a potential threat to Earth.

NASA’s NEOWISE telescope captures 12-year timelapse of the sky

By Sarah Rose, Managing Editor | November 7, 2022

On Oct. 18, NASA released on its website that NEOWISE has captured 18 photos since being repurposed, creating a time-lapse movie of the sky. When the telescope’s images are stitched together, scientists can see a decade's worth of change in the cosmos,...