Southern Skies
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How Do We Know What the Star Is Made Of?
Devika spends all her day looking at star light and turning it into rainbows. When the photon from the core of the star is passing through this element, some of the energy of the light particle is absorbed by that element. In my beautiful rainbow, I either see dark lines because some of the light has been absorbed by that particular element. We can tell the missing lines to great precision where I know when a line is missing,. I know which element it represents. And in some cases, the line's not missing or the light particles is energized.
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