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[Music throughout] Narrator: WFIRST, the Widefield Infrared

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Survey Telescope, will capture images unlike any satellite before it.

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WFIRST will have the same image resolution as Hubble, but will cover

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an area 100 times larger. To see what the sky

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will look like to WFIRST, scientists use special processing

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techniques to create simulated images. In this case,

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they began with a Hubble mosaic of Andromeda, one of the closest

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galaxies to our own. This mosaic was created out of over

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400 individual Hubble images. WFIRST will be able to

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create a similar mosaic with just two images.

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The simulated image is not just special because of its size, however.

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It also shows Andromeda as it will appear through WFIRST’s optics and

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infrared filters. With an unprecedented combination of breadth

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and depth, WFIRST will open a new era in viewing

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our universe.