The study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on May 20, 2019, is based in particular on measurements of comet 46P/Wirtanen carried out by SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for
Infrared Astronomy.
From a cruising altitude of nearly 14,000 metres (45,000 feet), the Stratospheric Observatory for
Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, avoided 85 percent of the atmospheric "noise" of ground-based telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2018, may be the talk of the town in
infrared astronomy circles, and for a bunch of reasons; for its staggering capabilities to look further and deeper into the universe than ever before possible, or for its eye-watering price tag of 8ドル.8bn ...
In addition, a NASA 747SP aircraft based at the center carries an airborne infrared telescope named SOFIA, Stratospheric Observatory to
Infrared Astronomy.
Nordlund also said that there is interest by Cypriot scientists in
infrared astronomy for the future Euclid mission of ESA, which is a mission to map the geometry of the dark Universe, and the James Web Space Telescope, which will help scientists find out more about the origins of the Universe by observing infrared light from the first stars and galaxies and show in detail how stars and planets form.
GREAT, Armstrong Hangar 703, Palmdale 2014 fixes on the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (great), a spectrometer capable of identifying the "fingerprints" of molecules millions of light-years away from its position on board the Stratospheric Observatory for
Infrared Astronomy (Sofia), a flying observatory jointly maintained by nasa and the German Aerospace Center.
Infrared Astronomy -- Seeing the Heat: From William Herschel to the Herschel Space Observatory
Most books covering
infrared astronomy assume a prior background in advanced math and astronomy, so it's a surprise to find a physics book that assumes neither, but provides a comprehensive (and comprehendible) overview to infrared and its applications.