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The 2.69-ton 2.4 metric ton scientific ROSAT satellite was launched in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1990 and retired in 1999 after being used for research on black holes and neutron stars and performing the first all-sky survey of X-ray sources with an imaging telescope.

ROSAT Satellite Enters Earth's Atmosphere

The WISE mission comes a quarter century after the Infrared Astronomy Satellite made the first all-sky map in infrared wavelength in 1983.

25,000 New Asteroids Uncovered By NASA's Sky Mapping (PHOTOS)

The movie of these all-sky images has been compiled and is shown above.

All-Sky Radio Image in 60 Seconds, No Moving Parts | Universe Today

Following the observation for the first high-band, all-sky image, scientists at MPIfR made a series of all-sky images covering a wide frequency range using both the low-band and high-band antennas at Effelsberg.

All-Sky Radio Image in 60 Seconds, No Moving Parts | Universe Today

By using data from huge all-sky surveys, a group of astronomers led by David Law at UCLA were able to reconstruct the orbit of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy.

Milky Way Has a "Squashed Beachball"-Shaped Dark Matter Halo | Universe Today

"We plan to search for radio transients using the all-sky imaging capabilities of the LOFAR telescopes", says Michael Kramer, director at MPIfR, in Bonn.

All-Sky Radio Image in 60 Seconds, No Moving Parts | Universe Today

"The ability to make all-sky images in just seconds is a tremendous advancement compared to existing radio telescopes which often require weeks or months to scan the entire sky," Anderson went on.

All-Sky Radio Image in 60 Seconds, No Moving Parts | Universe Today

Well, that didn't take long: The WISE spacecraft Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spotted its first near-Earth asteroid on January 12, 2010, two days before the official start of its all-sky survey.

WISE Bags its First Near-Earth Asteroid | Universe Today

Back in the mid-1990s, before Alex Szalay and Jim Gray met, Alex had been talking to astronomers at an all-sky infrared survey called 2MASS about Sloan and 2MASS using the same structures for their archives so that the sky could be accessible in both wavelengths.

A Grand and Bold Thing

The first detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe, taken by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (AP)

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