NASA has selected the far-infrared space telescope mission PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) to move to the ...

What you'll discover in this article ・NASA has announced the development of a new far-infrared (FIR) telescope called PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics). ・This will be the first ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret universe that, to this day, ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe—syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even ...

Marcia Rieke is an infrared astronomer and the principal investigator who designed the near-infrared camera (NIRcam) for the James Webb space telescope. The Daily Wildcat sat down with Rieke to ...

UMass Amherst post-baccalaureate finds that galaxy properties from visible-light data remain largely robust even when hidden dust emission is included. While astronomers have mapped much of the ...

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Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies — and increasingly by commercial companies — are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade ...

Infrared astronomy relies on specialised instruments designed to detect and analyse radiation from approximately 1 µm to several hundred microns in wavelength. Key components include cooled detector ...

Uncover the latest and most impactful research in Instrumentation and Spectroscopy for Infrared Astronomy. Explore pioneering discoveries, insightful ideas and new methods from leading researchers in ...