"Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought ...

Infrared light, unlike visible light, can penetrate interstellar dust clouds, allowing astronomers to observe celestial objects obscured in the visible spectrum, such as the galactic center and the ...

The Universe is full of radiation of all types but most of this does not reach us here on Earth because our atmosphere blocks out many wavelengths of radiation, but lets others through. Fortunately ...

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, ...

The newest deep space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, will give us a deeper view into the infrared universe than the iconic Hubble. A new video from the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The best infrared eye in the universe has closed, and scientists will need to wait at least a ...

At the dawn of the universe, there was only hydrogen and helium. These elements made up all the galaxies and all the stars. But stars fuse hydrogen and helium into heavier elements, and large stars ...

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

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Low helped drive the advance of infrared astronomy with his enthusiasm and an intuitive knack for solving technical problems, said George H. Rieke, a longtime associate at the UA. Along with Gerry ...

University of Iowa researchers have demonstrated in two new studies how a semiconductor material can be used to create ...