Suppose you want to search for brown dwarfs using a space telescope. Will you design your telescope to detect light in the ultraviolet or the infrared part of the spectrum? Why?

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Karsyn Daniel

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21 August, 23:24

Suppose you want to search for brown dwarfs using a space telescope. Will you design your telescope to detect light in the ultraviolet or the infrared part of the spectrum? Why?

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Evelin Miles · Answer 1

infrared part of the spectrum

Explanation:

brown dwarfs are relatively cool and have temperatures of about 2000 K emitting their light in the infrared and practically none in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.