New time-lapse movies from NASA's NEOWISE mission give

New time-lapse movies from NASA's NEOWISE mission give
astronomers the opportunity to see objects, like stars and black
holes, as they move and change over time. The videos include
previously hidden brown dwarfs, a feeding black hole, a dying
star, a star-forming region, and a brightening star. They combine
more than 10 years of NEOWISE observations and 18 all-sky
images, enabling a long-term analysis and a deeper
understanding of the universe.
0:44 - NEOWISE all-sky scan animation
1:03 - Feeding black hole
1:14 - Pulsing star reaches the end of its life
1:21 - Protostars in star-forming region
1:34 - Brown dwarf moves across the sky
2:00 - Unexplained stellar brightening
The NEOWISE mission uses a space telescope to hunt for
asteroids and comets, including those that could pose a threat to
Earth. Launched in December 2009 as the Wide-Field Infrared
Survey Explorer, or WISE, the space telescope was originally
designed to survey the sky in infrared, detecting asteroids, stars
and some of the faintest galaxies in space. WISE did so
successfully until completing its primary mission in February
2011.
Observations resumed in December 2013, when the telescope
for the NEOWISE
taken of hibernation and