News tagged with infrared light
Related topics: stars , spitzer space telescope , galaxies , nasa , massive stars
Infrared camera provides a better view
Infrared cameras see more than the naked eye and can make road traffic safer. Cameras for the long-wave infrared range, however, have the disadvantage that the sensor requires constant cooling, which adds ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Earth-like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-Up
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists speculate that our galaxy could be full of places like Pandora from the movie "Avatar" -- Earth-like worlds in solar systems besides our own.
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Jumbo Jellyfish or Massive Star?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some might see a blood-red jellyfish in a forest of seaweed, while others might see a big, red eye or a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object in this new infrared image from NASA's ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Predicting amount of oil in contaminated soils
Scientists are reporting a new technique for mapping and testing oil-contaminated soils. Traditionally, samples need to be collected from the field and returned to a lab for extensive chemical analysis, costing ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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'Dark Pulse Laser' produces bursts of... almost nothing
In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Webb Telescope's NIRCam engineering test unit arrives at NASA Goddard
A test unit for the "NIRCam" instrument that will fly aboard the James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and has been placed in a clean room for a year's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2010 |
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The case of the grown-up galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems, early on its life, our Universe was a place of extremes.
May 20, 2010 |
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Nanotech discovery could lead to breakthrough in infrared satellite imaging technology
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of ultra-powerful ...
May 18, 2010 |
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Seeing the Invisible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers, like physicians, use as much of the electromagnetic spectrum as they can, from X-ray to radio wavelengths, to examine their subjects the with the most suitable diagnostics.
May 17, 2010 |
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Invisible light discovers the most distant cluster of galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers from Japan and Germany has discovered the most distant cluster of galaxies known so far-9.6 billion light years away.
May 10, 2010 |
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Image: Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 04, 2010 |
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VISTA Captures Celestial Cat’s Hidden Secrets (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334, is a huge stellar nursery, the birthplace of hundreds of massive stars. In a magnificent new ESO image taken with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Baby stars in the Rosette cloud
Herschel's latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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An Avalanche of Asteroids
Imagine you're a Brontosaurus with your face in a prehistoric tree top, munching on fresh leaves. Your relatives have ruled planet Earth for more than 150 million years. Huge and strong, you feel invincible. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Playing 'Pong' with the blink of an eye (w/ Video)
University students have developed a computer game that is operated by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities to become 'gamers' for the first time, they announce today.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 26, 2010 |
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