Did you know that white light is made up of many colors? To see these colors, we need to bend the light. This bending is called refraction. When you see a rainbow, it’s because sunlight is bending ...

Building your own spectroscope using everyday items takes just under an hour. The needed tools, all of which should be relatively easy to find around the house. (Image credit: Nola Taylor Redd) ...

Yesterday morning we made a spectroscope — a device that breaks light down into a rainbow of component colors — from a cardboard box and an old DVD. Different light sources give you different ...

Look what my friend J. showed me (yes, it is just J. You know, like in Men in Black). Oh, I was going to use this for a What the Heck is this? post, but I decided not to. Yes, it is an old ...

To help find out if its worth going to a particular asteroid, scientists from Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities are developing a new gamma-ray spectroscope that's capable of scanning asteroids for ...

This review, “Astronomy tests a hot new spectroscope,” appeared in the January 2010 issue of Astronomy magazine. Amateur solar observing has an exciting new tool. The Lhires Lite spectroscope ...

The technological development is a new generation gamma-ray spectroscope designed to detect gold, platinum, rare earth elements, and other valuable material hidden within asteroids.

As a considerable amount of interest seems to have been awakened lately in meteorological spectroscopy, it may be of service to observers to call their attention to a form of pocket spectroscope ...

A LETTER from Mr. Browning, in the number of NATURE for December 15th, has just come to my notice, and seems to require a word from me. I regret exceedingly that he should have supposed that I ...

Throughout the mid-1800s, improvements on the spectroscope allowed physicists to more accurately measure the wavelengths of light and identify new elements—like helium. Wikimedia Commons “I ...