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Envision the birth of stars and planets illuminated through the infrared eye of the James Webb Space Telescope
Learn about the James Webb Space Telescope's use of infrared to observe stars being...
Video: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Learn about Lord Rosse's Birr Leviathan telescope and its various important discoveries, the most important being the detailed observations of many nebulae at Birr Castle, Ireland
Discover the historical significance of Lord Rosse's "Leviathan" telescope at Birr...
Video: University College Cork, Ireland (
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Orion in visible and infrared light
The constellation of Orion in visible (left) and infrared light (right). The infrared...
Visible light image, left, Akira Fujii; Infrared image, right, Infrared Astronomical Satellite/NASA
Andromeda Galaxy
Image of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
centre of the Milky Way Galaxy
Image of the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, produced from the observations made...
NASA
Crab Nebula: infrared image
The Crab Nebula in an infrared image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Gehrz (University of Minnesota)
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