Q. NEOWISE Telescope, recently seen in the news, was launched by which space agency?
Answer:
NASA
Notes: NASA's NEOWISE mission, originally launched as the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in 2009, has concluded after over a decade. Initially designed to survey the sky in infrared, detecting asteroids, stars, and faint galaxies, it completed its primary mission in 2011. In 2013, the telescope was reactivated for the NEOWISE project to study near-Earth objects (NEOs) and distant asteroids and comets. NEOWISE detected over 158,000 minor planets, including 34,000 new discoveries. Its data helped set limits on asteroid numbers, orbits, sizes, and compositions, and led to the discovery of the first known Earth Trojan asteroid.