“Every object in the Universe with a temperature above absolute zero radiates in the infrared, so this part of the spectrum contains a great deal of information.”

[Low, Frank, 2001, May, Obituary: Frederick Gillett (1937-2001), Nature, 411, 6840, 906]

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