News articles tagged with 'infrared'
Transmission lines for nanofocusing of infrared light
— 4 Apr 2011 19:12 | TechnologyIn conventional optical instruments, light cannot be focused to spot sizes smaller than half the wavelength because of diffraction effects. An important approach to beat this diffraction…
New laser technology prepares to revolutionise communications
— 29 Mar 2011 16:37 | TechnologyAs fibre optic technology continues to advance, it faces challenges from both its physical properties and its use of infrastructure. One emerging high-speed solution being developed…
A very cool pair of brown dwarfs
— 28 Mar 2011 17:42 | AstronomyBrown dwarfs are essentially failed stars: they lack enough mass for gravity to trigger the nuclear reactions that make stars shine. The newly discovered brown dwarf, identified as…
New kind of optical fibre developed
— 2 Mar 2011 12:58 | ChemistryA team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fibre made with a core of zinc selenide - a light-yellow…
Herschel finds less dark matter but more stars
— 17 Feb 2011 17:12 | AstronomyESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into star…
Runaway star plows through space
— 25 Jan 2011 19:47 | AstronomyA massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field…
International first: Gas-phase carbonic acid isolated
— 11 Jan 2011 17:56 | ChemistryA team of chemists headed by Thomas Loerting from the University of Innsbruck and Hinrich Grothe from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have prepared and isolated…
VISTA stares deeply into the blue lagoon
— 5 Jan 2011 17:12 | AstronomyThis new infrared image of the Lagoon Nebula was captured as part of a five-year study of the Milky Way using ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. This is a small…
Tropical Storm Anggrek is tightly wrapped in NASA satellite imagery
— 3 Nov 2010 19:13 | EnvironmentBands of strong thunderstorms are wrapping around the centre of Tropical Storm Anggrek in the Southern Indian Ocean, according to satellite imagery. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an…
VISTA reveals the secret of the unicorn
— 7 Oct 2010 16:00 | AstronomyAn active stellar nursery lies hidden inside a massive dark cloud rich in molecules and dust in the constellation of Monoceros. Although it appears close in the sky to the more familiar…