The United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope is a 3.8 metre infrared reflecting telescope, the second largest dedicated infrared telescope in the world. It is located on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i as part of Mauna
UKIRT at sunset
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
United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
…by Grubb Parsons of Newcastle. Originally known as the Infrared Flux Collector, it began operations in October 1979. Built at the same time was the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. John Jefferies of the Institute for Astronomy, which built the first telescope in the area, said "it has been sometimes a source of embarrassment…
Afshin Darian NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
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