Questions tagged [infrared]
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What is the advantage of optical astronomy over infrared astronomy in space telescopes?
The Habitable Worlds Observatory, the proposed successor to the James Webb has an identically sized 6.5 meter mirror but operates primarily in visible light. Infrared telescopes like Webb have the ...
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Question: By design, JWST cannot observe in the anti-sun direction. Is this due to Gegenschein backscatter?
Gegenschein is a faint bright spot in the zodiacal light, centered at the antisolar point.
By ESO/Y. Beletsky - ESO, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22975456
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How will JWST extract the infrared signal from the desired early sources from all the other infrared it will see?
JWST will look for an infrared signal as low as 1 photon per second that comes from the earliest sources of infrared. But there will be infrared from any star in its field of view that is not ...
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Will the James Webb Space Telescope be able to see the Spitzer Space Telescope (assuming...)?
Space.com's NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is no more. Here's what's next for infrared astronomy. says:
The best infrared eye in the universe† has closed, and scientists will need to wait at least a ...
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Why the logarithmic spiral for the ASM-135 ASAT's infrared detector?
The Scott Manley video The Only Pilot to Shoot Down A Spacecraft - A Space Ace talks about the ASM-135 ASAT and its successful test launched from an F-15.
He shows images from the page The F-15 ASAT ...
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