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Infrared cirrus orgalactic cirrus are galactic filamentary structures seen in space over most of the sky that emit far-infraredlight. The name is given because the structures arecloud-like in appearance.^[1] These structures were first detected by theInfrared Astronomy Satellite atwavelengths of 60 and 100micrometres.

• Galaxy filament
• Cosmic infrared background

• Molecular Hydrogen in Infrared Cirrus, Kristen Gillmon, J. Michael Shull, 2006 Abstract
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• The Physics of Infrared Cirrus, C. Darren Dowell, Roger H. Hildebrand,Alexandre Lazarian, Michael W. Werner, Ellen Zweibel

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