We’ve all gotten used to seeing movies depict people using night vision gear where everything appears as a shade of green. In reality the infrared image is monochrome, but since the human eye is ...

Infrared, or IR, night vision is the capacity for a camera to project infrared light that human eyes can’t see, using it to ...

Solid state electronics have provided lighter weight night vision units that work better ... The type B weighed almost 5 pounds. To use the metascope, you had to “charge” it with light and ...

Detecting infrared radiation. Everything above absolute zero emits infrared radiation, which is also perceived as heat in the far infrared (FIR) range. In normal environments, people and animals ...

The AN/PSQ-20 Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG) provides increased capability by incorporating image intensification and long-wave infrared sensors ... because it permits use of existing rifle ...

But the Spitzer telescope's infrared vision is the keenest ever, thanks to a mirror nearly three feet (0.9 meters) across, sensitive detectors cooled almost to absolute zero, and an orbit far from ...