Sentences with phrase «sky at infrared wavelengths»

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), U.S. - U.K. - Netherlands satellite launched in 1983 that was the first space observatory to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths.

After a series of brief studies by infrared instruments carried on sounding rockets had detected about 4,000 celestial sources of infrared radiation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands built IRAS to map the sky at infrared wavelengths of 12, 25, 60, and 100 micrometres.

A complete survey of the sky at infrared wavelengths made during the early 1980s by an unmanned orbiting observatory, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), revealed a large number of dense dust clouds in the Milky Way.

Not exact matches

These natural magnifying glasses revealed six points in the sky glowing feebly at telltale wavelengths of infrared light, according to the group's study published online in The Astrophysical Journal.

This is the largest patch of sky ever imaged to these depths at infrared wavelengths.

They used images from the UltraVISTA survey, one of six projects using VISTA to survey the sky at near - infrared wavelengths, and made a census of faint galaxies when the age of the Universe was between just 0.75 and 2.1 billion years old.

Operating beyond the reaches of the Earth's atmosphere, free of its limiting absorption and thermal background, the Near - Infrared Sky Surveyor (NIRSS) will deeply map the entire sky at near - infrared wavelengths, thereby enabling new and fundamental discove... ▽ More [NIRSS is one of three concepts that contributed to the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Decadal Infrared Sky Surveyor (NIRSS) will deeply map the entire sky at near - infrared wavelengths, thereby enabling new and fundamental discove... ▽ More [NIRSS is one of three concepts that contributed to the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Decadal SurveSky Surveyor (NIRSS) will deeply map the entire sky at near - infrared wavelengths, thereby enabling new and fundamental discove... ▽ More [NIRSS is one of three concepts that contributed to the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Decadal Survesky at near - infrared wavelengths, thereby enabling new and fundamental discove... ▽ More [NIRSS is one of three concepts that contributed to the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Decadal infrared wavelengths, thereby enabling new and fundamental discove... ▽ More [NIRSS is one of three concepts that contributed to the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Decadal Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Decadal Survey.]

Launched on Jan. 25, 1983, the Earth - orbiting observatory mapped the sky for 10 months at infrared wavelengths above the interference of Earth's atmosphere.

The third panel shows the same part of sky again at even shorter wavelengths, the near - infrared, as seen by ESO's VISTA infrared survey telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.