Infrared Astronomy
Very Large Telescope Images Of Jupiter Prepare Us For Juno Arrival
In preparation for Juno's arrival at Jupiter, a team from the European Southern Observatory is creating a breathtaking infrared map…
Giant “Invisible” Vortex Still Remains on Saturn Following Huge Storm
In 2010, a small, bright white storm emerged on Saturn’s northern hemisphere. This storm grew until it wrapped around the…
Coming Soon: World’s Largest Optical Telescope
[/caption] The world’s largest optical/infrared telescope has been given the initial go-ahead to be built. Called the European Extremely Large…
Behind the Scenes of SOFIA – The World’s Most Remarkable Observatory
[/caption] One of the most remarkable observatories in the world does its work not on a mountaintop, not in space,…
Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer
[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is a cool camera, no matter what temperature in which it…
New Image Shows Beautiful Violence in Centaurus A
[/caption] The mysterious galaxy Centaurus A is a great place to study the extreme processes that occur near super-massive black…
Zoom Into the Entire Infrared Sky from WISE
[/caption] Love all the great things you can see in infrared? Then zoom on into the big view of the…
Failed Star Is One Cool Companion
[/caption] Astronomers have located a planet-like star that's barely warmer than a balmy summer day on Earth... it's literally the…
Gas, Not Galaxy Collisions Responsible for Star Formation in Early Universe
[/caption] Was the universe a kinder, gentler place in the past that we have thought? The Herschel space observatory has…
Where’s the Debris for Transiting Planets?
For many exoplanet systems that have been discovered by the radial velocity method, astronomers have found excess emission in the…