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Tag: Black Holes

How do you feed the insatiable appetite of a nuclear black hole?

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 10, 2020

spiral galaxy M51

Tag: Black Holes

Superhuman tech will make us able to see infrared light, like Superman wishes he could

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 10, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: brown dwarf

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: brown dwarf

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Australia's powerful new infrared telescope to hunt for elusive cosmic events

Jeff Spry

May 30, 2020

Outsmart The Predator’s thermal vision with cutting edge infrared camouflage

Adam Pockross

Mar 5, 2020

Predator poster

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Spitzer Space Telescope

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)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Spitzer Space Telescope

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Spitzer Space Telescope

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Spitzer Space Telescope

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Spiral Galaxies

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Spiral Galaxies

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Large Magellanic Cloud

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Large Magellanic Cloud

Tag: Technology

Scientists think they've figured out how to give humans infrared vision like The Predator

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 1, 2019

Tag: Technology

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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).

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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