The electromagnetic spectrum includes all forms of light energy, known as electromagnetic radiation. ( 1) Different types of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves, microwaves, visible light, ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

As I sit here in my living room, I’m bombarded with radiation – thermal radiation from the heat of the day, visible light radiation from the Sun and various lights and displays in the room, ...

Such lasers are the strongest in terms of power and have the widest frequency range; different types can produce radiation that spans the far-infrared, visible light, ultraviolet and X-ray ranges.

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Between 10-100 times shorter than visible light waves, the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths will allow researchers to "see" tiny features and carve miniature patterns, ...

The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the ...

The joint detection of gravitational waves and light isn’t easy, requiring large and wide-fields telescopes to rapidly scan the sky location of a gravitational wave source.