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Infrared Astronomy

Giant “Invisible” Vortex Still Remains on Saturn Following Huge Storm

October 25, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In 2010, a small, bright white storm emerged on Saturn’s northern hemisphere. This storm grew until it wrapped around the planet in curly cloud structures, creating a colossal atmospheric disturbance that endured into the early part of 2012, becoming the largest [...]

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Coming Soon: World’s Largest Optical Telescope

June 12, 2012

The world’s largest optical/infrared telescope has been given the initial go-ahead to be built. Called the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) this long-proposed new ground-based telescope will have a 40-meter main mirror and observe the universe in visible and infrared light, making direct images of exoplanets, perhaps find Earth-sized and even Earth-like worlds, and study [...]

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Behind the Scenes of SOFIA – The World’s Most Remarkable Observatory

April 25, 2012

One of the most remarkable observatories in the world does its work not on a mountaintop, not in space, but 45,000 feet high on a Boeing 747. Nick Howes took a look around this unique airliner as it made its first landing in Europe. Remove this ad

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Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer

April 16, 2012

The Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is a cool camera, no matter what temperature in which it operates! For 1,000 days now, the camera has been continuously taking images of the Universe – from its most distant regions to our local solar neighborhood. The IRAC is now operating in a “warm” version of [...]

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New Image Shows Beautiful Violence in Centaurus A

April 4, 2012

The mysterious galaxy Centaurus A is a great place to study the extreme processes that occur near super-massive black holes, scientists say, and this beautiful new image from the combined forces of the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton x-ray satellite reveals energetic processes going on deep in the galaxy’s core. This beautiful image tells [...]

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