thermal radiation

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This allows the imaging system to capture the spectral and polarization details of thermal radiation in addition to the intensity information that is acquired with traditional thermal imaging.

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2024

Water vapor prevents the solar irradiation absorbed by Earth to be reemitted towards the void of space, as thermal radiation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2023

In the 1970s Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit thermal radiation, in the form of particles, because of quantum mechanical effects near the event horizon.

From Scientific American • Nov. 30, 2022

All hot bodies emit light, and a universal principle known as Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation states that reciprocal materials in equilibrium must absorb and emit thermal radiation at the same rate.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022

I knew if I got close enough to him, the intense thermal radiation he was emitting would scorch me.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram