Sentences with phrase «dust than visible light»

By observing infrared light, which is less affected by cosmic dust than visible light, and exploiting the excellent conditions at ESO's Paranal Observatory, the team was able to get a clearer view of this region than ever before.

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Infrared radiation passes through interstellar dust much more easily than visible light, so by looking at the infrared light from a galaxy we can learn about the new stars forming within the clouds of dust and gas.

In fact it's positively chilly, with more than half the energy emitted by normal matter coming from clouds of gas and dust too cold to radiate visible light — and which therefore can not be seen with traditional telescopes.

For the same reason, infrared astronomy enables researchers to observe cosmic objects through large clouds of interstellar dust that scatter infrared radiation substantially less than visible light.

While probing space in depth — let us bear in mind that the further we look, the more we go back in time — ALMA detects the glow of tepid dust present in the most distant galaxies, i.e., the earliest ones, with better resolution than could be possible in the deepest observations using visible or infrared light.