4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics @scishowspace

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4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics

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$The Night Sky in Infrared James Webb wouldn’t be equipped to look in the infrared if not for the previous missions that have allowed us to see the universe in wavelengths that the human eye can’t see! Hosted By: Reid Reimers SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet, Jason A Saslow, Heriberto Bustos! Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/i/Infrared https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/infrared-astronomical-satellite-iras http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/jnorwood/astr105_old/lab03.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/radfrac.html http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/planck_curve.html http://www.icc.dur.ac.uk/~tt/Lectures/Galaxies/Images/Infrared/Regions/irregions.html https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/More_about_the_infrared http://www.icc.dur.ac.uk/~tt/Lectures/Galaxies/Images/Infrared/Windows/irwindows.html http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/information/about.php https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/overview/index.html https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/iras/ http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/ast613/lectures/mid_ir/mid_ir.html https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/iras.html https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/iras/asteroid_comet_s.cfm https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/spitzer-space-telescope https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/wide-field-infrared-survey-explorer-wise https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebbVsHubble.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/science/index.html Image Sources: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/night-sky-in-the-mountains-time-lapse-bcwaaecyzjev15h0u https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CDC_illustration Electromagnetic_Spectrum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IRAS_in_orbit.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMtC34pzKGc&t=147s https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-catches-a-bounty-of-stars-and-cosmic-dust https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/infrared.html https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1578.html https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/dictionary/Atmosphere.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afshin_Darian NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IRAS_in_JPL_simulator.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia15481.html https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blur-background-reflection-of-hand-holding-camera-gm504602655-44383980 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13402 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IRAS_all-sky_infrared_survey.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/dictionary/Solar_System.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spitzer_space_telescope.jpg https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2221/spitzer-and-nasas-great-observatories-space-telescopes/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WISE_artist_concept_(PIA17254,_crop).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Webb_Space_Telescope.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/cosmic-winter-wonderland.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IRAS_overview.jpg$

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