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Permanently shadowed craters are also ideal locations for space-based infrared telescopes that need extreme cold for their operation.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 23, 2023

It is possible to look directly at Io’s volcanic hot spots with infrared telescopes.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Finally, artificial light or heat from cities and industry could also be detectable with large optical and infrared telescopes, as would a large number of satellites orbiting a planet.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2022

Years spent tracking the orbits of stars around Sagittarius A* with infrared telescopes had already given astronomers an accurate measure of the black hole's mass—the equivalent of roughly four million suns.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2022

Since then, several other infrared telescopes have operated in space with much better sensitivity and resolution due to improvements in infrared detectors.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016