Spitzer Telescope spots a ghoulish gourd
A carved-out cloud of gas and dust looks like a celestial jack-o'-lantern in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2019
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News tagged with light wavelength
Researchers work to create infrared detectors for viper-like night vision
Much like some snakes use infrared to "see" at night, University of Central Florida researchers are working to create similar viper vision to improve the sensitivity of night-vision cameras.
General Physics
Oct 23, 2019
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Spitzer spots a starry region bursting with bubbles
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation from young, massive stars. Each bubble is filled with hundreds to thousands of ...
Astronomy
Sep 30, 2019
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Tiny, biocompatible laser could function inside living tissues
Researchers have developed a tiny nanolaser that can function inside of living tissues without harming them.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 23, 2019
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Brighter future for LEDs: NIST Introduces new lamp calibration lab
Question: How many measurement scientists does it take to screw in an LED lightbulb? Answer: For researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), half as many as it took a few weeks ago.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 6, 2019
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Enhancing materials for hi-res patterning to advance microelectronics
To increase the processing speed and reduce the power consumption of electronic devices, the microelectronics industry continues to push for smaller and smaller feature sizes. Transistors in today's cell phones are typically ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 27, 2019
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Spotting merging galaxies
Over 30 years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely luminous galaxies, some more than a thousand times brighter than our own Milky Way, but which are practically invisible ...
Astronomy
Aug 19, 2019
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NASA's Spitzer spies a perfectly sideways galaxy
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but it's actually an entire galaxy viewed on its side.
Astronomy
Aug 13, 2019
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Laser and sensor research to be advanced by new inquiries into plasmonic-photonic crystals
A group of researchers led by Professor Myakzyum Salakhov has been working on the problem of optical states in plasmonic-photonic crystals (PPCs).
Optics & Photonics
Aug 12, 2019
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Seeing smaller through cells: A natural single-cell biomagnifier for subwavelength imaging
Optical microscopes and tweezers can image and manipulate objects at the microscale for applications in cellular and molecular biology. The optical resolution is, however, hampered by the diffraction limit and therefore both ...
