Why can we see the light from a source from afar, but

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Not be able to feel the heat from afar, only up close? And heat can take form in all kinds of radiation right? So why is it that infrared radiation is always used to describe heat?
 

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We can feel the heat from a distant star - you just need a rather sensitive thermometer.

Illustration of the IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a cylindrical telescope with a cone-shaped shield, with four blue-green sky maps labelled 12, 25, 60 and 100 above it.
 

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