Infrared Astronomy Archives

Rise of the Super Telescopes: The James Webb Space Telescope

8 Mar , 2017 by Evan Gough

The eagerly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope will be the first of the Super Telescopes to start work.

Stars Are The Universe’s Neat Freaks

4 Jul , 2016 by Matt Williams

A recently released catalogue showing the results of a Herschel survey has revealed how stars have cleaned the universe over billions of years

Behold The Distant Universe!

30 Jun , 2016 by Matt Williams

At the annual National Astronomy Meeting, members of the Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) team shared images that are the deepest view of the Universe yet

In preparation for the arrival of Juno, the ESO's released stunning IR images of Jupiter, taken by the VLT. Credit: ESO

Very Large Telescope Images Of Jupiter Prepare Us For Juno Arrival

29 Jun , 2016 by Matt Williams

In preparation for Juno’s arrival at Jupiter, a team from the European Southern Observatory is creating a breathtaking infrared map of Jupiter

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

25 Oct , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

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 storm seen on the planet since 1990. Being in orbit around the ringed planet, […]

Coming Soon: World’s Largest Optical Telescope

12 Jun , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] 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 […]

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

25 Apr , 2012 by Nick Howes

[/caption] 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. SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) came from an idea […]

Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer

16 Apr , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] 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 […]

New Image Shows Beautiful Violence in Centaurus A

4 Apr , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] 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 […]

Zoom Into the Entire Infrared Sky from WISE

14 Mar , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] Love all the great things you can see in infrared? Then zoom on into the big view of the entire sky from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. WISE has collected more than 15 trillion bytes of data with 2.7 million images of the sky at infrared light. It’s captured everything from nearby […]

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