Blackbody Radiation: Max Intensity & Freq, Invisibility in UV Region?

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The black body curve illustrates how intensity varies with frequency, peaking and then declining as temperature increases. As temperature rises, the peak of this curve shifts to lower wavelengths or higher frequencies, indicating a change in emitted radiation. The discrete nature of energy packets, or quanta, relates to how energy is distributed across these frequencies. Even at high temperatures, while the peak may shift into the ultraviolet range, significant energy remains in the visible spectrum, preventing the object from becoming invisible. Thus, objects heated to high temperatures will still emit visible light despite the peak moving towards UV.
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The black body curve of intensity vs frequency increases, reaches a maximum value and then decreases. As the temperature increases, the peak of the curve shifts to lower wavelengths or higher frequencies.
1) I only vaguely understand the relation between the nature of this graph and the fact that energy is in discreet packets. Can someone give me a simple explanation?
2) As the peak keeps moving to lower frequencies with increase in temperature, will the object eventually become invisible as we reach really high temperatures and it gets to the UV region?
 
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