Infrared Astronomy
Feel The Heat! New Mars Map Shows Differences Between Bedrock And Sand
For years, NASA's Mars Odyssey has been working on some night moves. It's been taking pictures of the Red Planet…
How to Find Your Way Around the Milky Way This Summer
Look east on a dark June night and you'll get a face full of stars. Billions of them. With the moon now…
Poof! Mountain Blows Its Top To Make Way For Huge Telescope
All's clear for a huge telescope to start construction on a mountaintop in Chile! That puff you see is the top…
‘Weird’ Dust Ring Baffles In Cloud That Will Give Birth To Giant Stars
Long after telescopes cease operating, their bounty of scientific data continues to amaze. Here's an example of that: this Herschel…
Too WISE to be Fooled by Dust: Over 300 New Star Clusters Discovered
Brazilian astronomers have discovered some 300+ star clusters that were largely overlooked owing to sizable obscuration by dust. The astronomers, from the Universidade…
Direct Image of an Exoplanet 155 Light Years Away
Chalk up another benchmark in the fascinating and growing menagerie of extra-solar planets. This week, an international team of researchers…
360 Degrees of Milky Way at Your Fingertips
Touring the Milky Way's a blast with this brand new 360-degree interactive panorama. More than 2 million infrared photos taken…
SOFIA Snapshots: Jupiter And Starbirth Among Achievements For Observatory Facing Sidelines
Just weeks after becoming fully operational, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is facing storage in 2015. The airborne observatory…
SOFIA Gives Scientists a First-Class View of a Supernova
Astronomers wanting a closer look at the recent Type Ia supernova that erupted in M82 back in January are in…
NEOWISE Spots a “Weirdo” Comet
NASA's NEOWISE mission -- formerly known as just WISE -- has identified the first comet of its new near-Earth object…