At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory and two survey telescopes.
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On 3 November, NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had captured the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star.
Radiation from some of the new stars has begun to erode their natal dust columns, and their emergence from the columns can be seen in the visible-light images.
I'm looking outside now and that's electromagnetic radiation - visible light.
The all-carbon formula doesn't need to be thickly spread to do its work, and it simply lets visible light through -- it could layer on top of a traditional solar cell to catch many more of the sun's rays.
It's said the process is similar to how a CT scan functions, but uses visible light instead of X-rays.
The astronomers overcame this by using cameras that pick up infra-red rather than visible light (like the thermal imaging cameras used for seeing in the dark).
The MRI takes pictures in the visible light spectrum and provides back-up for the HRI.
The telescope gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation (usually, but not always, visible light) to make far-off objects seem brighter and closer.
For example, iron-gall ink, commonly used on ancient documents, is transparent to infra-red light and most visible in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.
X-rays, ultraviolet light and visible light particularly once it has weakened enough to stop emitting gamma rays.
These tools span much of the electromagnetic spectrum from X-rays to ultraviolet to the infrared - and of course microscopy with visible light.
Only instead of amplifying visible light, it amplifies photons in the X-ray spectrum.
The near-infrared photoactive polymer absorbs more near-infrared light but is less sensitive to visible light, balancing solar cell performance and transparency in the visible wavelength region.
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Even something too small to emit visible light will probably give off radio waves and infra-red radiation (Jupiter does).
That 0.1 numbering gives a good indication of just how light the visible feature set might be, though -- other than an existing update to substitute the virtual menu button for a long-press of the home key, the interface changes are mostly limited to dedicated buttons for switching browser tabs and between different cameras.
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This part of the infra-red spectrum, with wavelengths close to that of visible light, carries heat energy.
But with all eyes now turning to Iraq's first election of a full-term parliament, a pinpoint of light may be visible at the end of the tunnel.
Though the carbon nanotubes absorb infra-red light, they are almost totally transparent to the visible variety.
When exposed to light in the visible spectrum, the fabric turns out to be self-cleaning.
For generations, microbiologists had known that single-celled bacteria, fungi and algae survive thanks to proteins that respond to visible light.
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Subsequent observations with an infra-red telescope, which can see things that are too cool to shine with visible light, showed that it was a very faint star so faint that it is off the bottom of astronomers' scale of stellar classification.
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