Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See

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Dec 18, 2007Religion & Spirituality

Dr. Michelle Thaller explains infrared light in this older video, produced by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) before it launched.

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