Icon class icon_class fas fa-quote-left icon_class_computed fas fa-quote-left Related content Optical radiation, visible, UV, and infrared Source Wikipedia Copyright information Text from Wikipedia and Wiktionary web pages quoted for educational purposes is subject to the Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence Snippet kind INFO Keywords far infrared near infrared infrared astronomy Previous snippet Infrared radiation with wavelengths just longer than visible light, known as near-infrared, behaves in a very similar way to visible light, and can be detected using similar solid state devices ... Full quote Many optical telescopes, such as those at Keck Observatory, operate effectively in the near infrared as well as at visible wavelengths. URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_astronomy Next snippet Related snippets Infrared radiation with wavelengths just longer than visible light, known as near-infrared, behaves in a very similar way to visible light, and can be detected using similar solid state devices ... Related snippets (backlinks) Optical radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is subdivided into ultraviolet radiation (UV), the spectrum of light visible for man (VIS) and infrared radiation (IR). It ranges between wavelengths of 100 nm to 1 mm [DISPUTED] Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags