Astronomy Cast

Ep. 132: Infrared Astronomy


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Today we continue our unofficial tour through the electromagnetic spectrum, stopping at the infrared spectrum - you feel it as heat. This section of the spectrum gives us our only clear view through dusty material to see newly forming planetary systems and shrouded supermassive black holes. And infrared lets us look out to the most distant regions of the observable universe, when the first building blocks of galaxies came together.
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Astronomy CastBy Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay