Do non living things also emit infrared radiation?

Yes. Any object will emit infrared radiation based on its temperature. In movies and TV, they find people and animals with infrared because they are so much warmer than the surrounding soil, rocks, or vegetation. read more

Any object will emit infrared radiation based on its temperature. In movies and TV, they find people and animals with infrared because they are so much warmer than the surrounding soil, rocks, or vegetation. read more

Infrared radiation is heat. Heated materials give off radiation in the Electromagnetic spectrum which we call infrared. It is too low a frequency for the human eye to detect, but our nerves can detect the radiation as heat. So although we can't see heat, our nerves can detect it in a way that we call heat. read more