The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3.2-meter telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. It was first built to support the Voyager miss
Thermal image of Jupiter obtained by NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in 2007
Near-infrared (H-band) image of Jupiter by IRTF, showing where the comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, struck the planet (bright spot, lower half).
Asteroid collisions with Earth as visualized by the space Artist Don Davis
WISEPA J062309.94−045624.6 is a brown dwarf of spectral type T8. It is the coldest, and latest spectral type brown dwarf observed to produce radio emission.