Meeting MIRI - The Mid Infra Red Instrument
25 January 2012
Interview with
Dr Helen Walker, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The Mid Infra Red Instrument, or MIRI, is due to fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, and will observe distant galaxies and cold gas and dust. It can observe light with a wavelength of 5 to 27 microns, which is virtually impossible on Earth, where it is absorbed by the atmosphere. MIRI hopes to see the most distant galaxies and shed light on the distribution of hydrogen gas in the universe...
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