infrared radiation
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The heat we feel from a glowing coal or an incandescent light bulb is from infrared rays.
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Their high temperatures allow them to emit detectable infrared radiation.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
These glasses reduce visible sunlight to safe and comfortable levels and block all but a tiny fraction of solar UV and infrared radiation, according to the American Astronomical Society.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024
In the future for instance, the Duke team's work might help others engineer nanotubes that detect heat released as infrared radiation, to reveal people or vehicles hidden in the shadows.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024
Like any hot object, it was giving off radiant heat -- what we’d now call long-wave infrared radiation.
From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023
Some nearby examples, tens or hundreds of millions of light-years away, are powerful sources of X-rays, infrared radiation and radio waves, have extremely luminous cores and fluctuate in brightness on time scales of weeks.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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