It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret universe that, to this day, ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have released the largest infrared map of the Milky Way ever. The enormous dataset contains millions of new objects, and the researchers expect to ...

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

Infrared astronomy relies on specialised instruments designed to detect and analyse radiation from approximately 1 µm to several hundred microns in wavelength. Key components include cooled detector ...

Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe—syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even ...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies — and increasingly by commercial companies — are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade ...

Marcia Rieke is an infrared astronomer and the principal investigator who designed the near-infrared camera (NIRcam) for the James Webb space telescope. The Daily Wildcat sat down with Rieke to ...

You can think of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observatory as offering the greatest view of all time. From the big space telescope’s vista point about 1 million miles behind Earth, it has ...

How do you spot 2,500 hidden galaxies within an area of sky already thoroughly searched by Hubble for more than a decade? The James Webb Space Telescope’s new MIRI Deep Imaging Survey has precisely ...

Far-infrared spectroscopy probes the cold and dust-enshrouded regions of the Universe by measuring electromagnetic radiation in the 30–300 μm band. This regime encompasses the principal cooling lines ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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