Explore: Far Infrared And Submillimetre Telescope (spacecraft)

An infrared telescope is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies. Infrared light is one of several types of radiation present

Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a 3.5-metre (11.5 ft) mirror and instruments sensitive to the far infrared and submillimetre wavebands (55–672 μm)

telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave and radio

with the launch of the near-infrared James Webb Space Telescope) and studied radiation in the far infrared and submillimetre wavebands. Rather than an Earth

Satellite (SWAS, also Explorer 74 and SMEX-3) is a NASA submillimetre astronomy satellite, and is the fourth spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX)

(170–650 nm, 2004- ) - Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (flew in 1990 and 1995) - ROSAT XUV (17-210eV) (30-6 nm, 1990–1999) - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

energy in the far infrared. Using the IRAS, scientists were able to determine the luminosity of the galactic objects discovered. The telescope was a joint

high frequency these are: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. The electromagnetic waves in each of these

near-infrared, and increase again in the mid-infrared spectrum; Atmospheric twinkling limits the resolution obtainable from ground-based telescopes since

much more sensitive. See also Radio telescopes. Infrared astronomy deals with the detection and analysis of infrared radiation (this typically refers to