Learn more. 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 ...

A spectroscope or spectrometer splits light into the wavelengths that make it up. Early spectroscopes used prisms that split the light by refraction — bending the light waves as they passed ...

In this make-and-take activity, you’ll construct your own cardboard spectroscope. Monday: Jan. 16, 6:30 p.m. Registration required. Pete the Cat Storytime Walk those groovy shoes over to the ...