Wednesday, December 9, 2009

A Hot Piece of Hardware: NASA’s New Orbiter Will Map the Entire Sky in Infrared


From Discover Magazine:

Stars and other astronomical phenomena radiate across the electromagnetic spectrum, on both sides of the puny band of visible light that the human eye can pick up. NASA’s newest toy, set for a Friday launch into space, will map the infrared portion of that radiation—and do it across the entire sky.

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