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Spitzer Space Telescope image of a part of the enormous Perseus Molecular Cloud, a nearby star-forming factory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The sky on fire: The cold flames of the Perseus Molecular Cloud
Phil Plait
Dec 14, 2020
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How do you feed the insatiable appetite of a nuclear black hole?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 10, 2020
spiral galaxy M51
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Superhuman tech will make us able to see infrared light, like Superman wishes he could
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 10, 2020
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A blast of radiation reveals a nearby cold brown dwarf
Phil Plait
Nov 10, 2020
Artwork depicting a magnetic brown dwarf; particles moving along the field lines hit the atmosphere and cause it to glow with an aurora. Credit: ASTRON/Danielle Futselaar
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SOFIA and star birth in the Swan
Phil Plait
Oct 2, 2020
The Swan Nebula is a site of star formation. Herschel And Spitzer space observatories see the stars and outer gaseous regions, while SOFIA observations (blue and green) show gas and dust where stars are in the process of being born.
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Australia's powerful new infrared telescope to hunt for elusive cosmic events
Jeff Spry
May 30, 2020
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Outsmart The Predator’s thermal vision with cutting edge infrared camouflage
Adam Pockross
Mar 5, 2020
Predator poster
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Yo, I heard you like galaxy collisions so I put a galaxy collision in your galaxy collision
Phil Plait
Feb 7, 2020
NGC 4490, a galaxy bursting with star formation after a recent close encounter with a smaller galaxy. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgements: D. Calzetti (UMass) and the LEGUS Team, J. Maund (University of Sheffield), and R. Chandar (University of To
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Good night, Spitzer Space Telescope
Phil Plait
Jan 31, 2020
Artwork of Spitzer Space Telescope against a background of the sky seen in infrared. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
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A little red and green for the holiday: RCW 120, a huge shell of gas from a runaway star
Phil Plait
Dec 26, 2019
The huge shell of gas and dust that make up RCW 120, seen here in the far infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE-MIPSGAL Teams
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Jupiter is still *really* weird: A new monster storm has formed around its south pole
Phil Plait
Dec 16, 2019
A thermal infrared image of Jupiter’s south pole in November 2019 reveals six cyclones surrounding a central cyclone; just two years before there were only five (the new one is to the lower right). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
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M81: Spiraling dusty galactic heat
Phil Plait
Oct 18, 2019
The nearby spiral galaxy M81 seen in three infrared colors by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Reassessing an irregular spiral: A spectacular image of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Phil Plait
Oct 4, 2019
The Tarantula Nebula in infrared isn’t quite as showy as it is in visible light, but it’s still impressive. Credit: ESO/VMC Survey
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Scientists think they've figured out how to give humans infrared vision like The Predator
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 1, 2019
The Predator
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Pale, dusty dots
Phil Plait
Jan 11, 2019
A map of the sky using the far-infrared observatory Herschel; every dot you see in this image is a distant galaxy. Credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017
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Fly over Jupiter's north pole in a 3D thermal infrared tour
Phil Plait
Apr 12, 2018
Jupiter’s north pole looks like a thick cheesy pizza in this 3D rendering of the clouds using a thermal infrared mapper on the Juno spacecraft (deeper air is warmer and glows more brightly than cooler air higher up).
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