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 For this reason, the near infrared region of the spectrum is commonly incorporated as part of the "optical" spectrum, along with the near ultraviolet. 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) Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags