Infrared Astronomy

First Science Results in from Herschel Telescope

Herschel looks deep inside the heart of a dark cloud located 1000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, the…

14 years ago

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, successfully lifted off this morning on its way to map the entire sky…

14 years ago

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NASA is getting WISE to the Universe this Friday. That is, they're launching the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a new…

14 years ago

[/caption] Astronomy is all about getting the big picture of our place in the cosmos, but some pictures are bigger…

14 years ago

[/caption] Infrared spectroscopy is spectroscopy in the infrared (IR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is a vital part of…

15 years ago

[/caption] The Herschel Telescope has given us a sneak preview of the infrared observational goodness we can expect from this…

15 years ago