The group pored over archival data from two infrared space telescopes, NASA’s IRAS mission from 1983, and Japan’s AKARI satellite from 2006 to 2007. Their goal: find any object that’s cold ...

NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), which launched in 1983, and Japan's AKARI satellite, active from 2006 to 2011. They looked for objects that appeared in the 1983 IRAS data but had ...

In their study, astronomer Terry Long Phan and colleagues compared data from two far-infrared, all-sky surveys: those of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and Japan's AKARI satellite.

They matched IRAS data with images from Japan’s AKARI satellite, taken in 2006. In one IRAS image, they spotted an object. It wasn’t in the same place when AKARI later looked, but AKARI did ...

Then, in 2006, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched AKARI, another infrared astronomy satellite that was active between 2006 and 2011. Phan's team were looking for objects ...

Astronomers found two strange, dense, icy objects by chance in 2021 during a survey of our galaxy’s disk by Japan’s AKARI satellite. A closer look showed that they are made of interstellar ice ...

Credit: R. Hurt / NASA/JPL- Caltech/ESO The objects, provisionally named “Object 1” and “Object 2”, were initially identified in a spectroscopic study conducted with the AKARI satellite, which ...

In 2006, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the infrared satellite AKARI, which was active until 2011. Researchers at the University in Taiwan compared objects that were observed ...