The star Gl 876, some fifteen light years away, is not a brown dwarf, but this M - dwarf is only 1.24 percent as luminous as the Sun, with most of its energy being
released at infrared wavelengths.
Not exact matches
According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be
released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does,
at optical, ultraviolet and near -
infrared wavelengths.
According to a NASA news
release, the auroral light appears in the near
infrared at wavelengths of three to four microns.
Therapeutic lasers
release light from the
infrared spectrum
at two slightly different
wavelengths, and the light is sent in two different patterns, pulsed waves and continuous waves.