An international team of scientists today released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the universe and ...

Sunlight contains an electromagnetic spectrum (special waves such as the kind in x-rays that travel through emptiness or a vacuum) of light that stretches from very short gamma rays to very long radio ...

You only have to switch to Satellite View on Google Maps to see how beautiful Earth looks from up high, but images from spacecraft capturing data in the near-infrared channel also create images of ...

Researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) have developed an innovative method to convert near-infrared (NIR) images into visible RGB images. The study, titled "Grayscale-Assisted RGB Image ...

Humanity's most powerful eye in the sky has spent a year at work and captured some remarkable images. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Europe’s flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new ‘eye’ to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the new instrument – dubbed HAWK-I – covers ...