For more than two centuries, astronomers have treated the Sun’s spectrum as a solved problem, a textbook example of how light ...
Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...
A photograph of Saturday’s rainbow, taken by Twitter user @mattk4441, shows the rows of supernumerary rays below the primary rainbow and the secondary rainbow above. National Weather Service After a ...
Scientists have discovered missing colours in the Sun’s light spectrum. Hundreds of dark absorption lines remain unexplained, hinting towards hidden processes in our nearest star’s mysterious ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Life for the 19th-century astronomer was kind of monotonous, 200 years after Galileo's ...
Scientists have used a new lens to focus all the colors of the rainbow into one point. This is the first time a single lens has been used to focus the entire spectrum of light, including white light.