The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. This discovery opens a new window into ...

Spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, auroras occur when energetic particles from the sun interact with a planet’s atmosphere ... tuned to the wavelengths of infrared light to continue ...

Chalcogenide glasses are attracting significant attention thanks to their mid-infrared ... At similar wavelengths, chalcogenide fibres have several atmospheric transmission windows for ...

Now, researchers have pointed JWST at a mysterious object called SIMP 0136+0933 to learn more about its atmosphere ... for longer wavelengths, using the space telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument.

The mid-infrared spectral region of 2-20 μm contains strong characteristic vibrational transitions of many important molecules as well as two atmospheric transmission windows of 3-5 μm and 8-13 ...

The index of refraction of air decreases sharply from shorter visible wavelengths to near‐infrared wavelengths ... We demonstrate the importance of atmospheric differential refraction, present ...

One element of this apparent intrinsic radiation is infrared radiation, which can be utilized to measure the body's temperature. This radiation permeates the atmosphere ... this area is known as ...