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NASA mapped the whole sky in 102 IR colors, and it may explain origins

NASA has just turned the entire sky into a kind of infrared rainbow, capturing it in 102 distinct colors that reveal structures and histories our eyes can never see. By scanning the cosmos in this ...
Gizmodo

Are the Colors in Webb Telescope Images ‘Fake’?

On July 12, the first full-color images from the Webb Space Telescope showed countless nebulae, galaxies, and a gassy exoplanet as they had never been seen before. But Webb only collects infrared and ...
Singularity Hub

These Contact Lenses Give People Superhuman Sight

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of ...
AOL

Scientists Invented Contact Lenses That Let You See in Color With Your Eyes Closed

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: New soft contact lenses use upconversion nanoparticles to convert infrared light into visible light. Unlike night-vision goggles, which can only see ...
Science Daily

Thermal vision: Graphene light detector first to span infrared spectrum

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared ...
The Conversation

Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains

Michael Murdoch is a member and former board member of the Inter-Society Color Council, part of the Color Literacy Project. People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ...