> "Using its infrared detectors, we can see through dust that has historically plagued accurate measurement of distances, and we can measure with much greater a

> "Using its infrared detectors, we can see through dust that has historically plagued accurate measurement of distances, and we can measure with much greater accuracy the brightnesses of stars," added co-author Barry Madore, of the Carnegie Institution for Science. It's amazing just rich the electromagnetic spectrum is for analyzing the universe, from radio to X-rays, and how complementary the pictures are. Though we get visually pleasing pictures in the visible spectrum, most of the really intellectually pleasing stuff of the past century has been outside the visible range.