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IRAS
(redirected from Infrared Astronomical Satellite)

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IRASInland Revenue Authority of Singapore
IRASInfrared Astronomy Satellite
IRASInfrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy
IRASInsulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis Study
IRASIndian Railway Accounts Service (India)
IRASIPsec Remote Access Server (IP security protocols, IKE mode config)
IRASInstitute on Religion in an Age of Science, Inc.
IRASInfrared Astronomical Satellite
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It's not the first telescope to do so, but scientists expect WISE's observations will be 500 times sharper than a survey conducted in 1980s by IRAS, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, according to astronomer Martin Cohen of the University of California at Berkeley.
NASA all set to launch infrared eye to hunt for dark asteroids by Asian News International
The new version includes featured observatories with images from NASA observatory satellites, including x-ray images from NASA's Chandra satellite; infrared images by the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS); a microwave map of the sky by the Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP); and ultraviolet images by the GALEX Satellite.
Google launches new version of Sky in Google Earth by Internet Business News
The narrative travels from the first known manufactured copper mirrors in Persia to the beryllium mirror used in the space-launched Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
Mirror mirror; a history of the human love affair with reflection. ... by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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