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Aurora Spectroscopy with StellarNet

This past weekend, intense auroras lit up the sky due to massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. Flinging wave after wave of charged solar particles toward Earth, those particles slammed into Earth’s magnetic field Friday, triggering what...

March Celestial Events Wonderful for Spectroscopy

All throughout March, unpack those binoculars and set up that telescope to view these celestial wonders. The Orion Constellation is visible to the naked eye in the southern part of the sky throughout the month. Using spectroscopic observation methods, astronomers can...

Color of Love: Venus on a Spectrum

To the human eye, Venus appears as white but it’s true colors are actually eclipsed by the Sun’s light. If you use a far ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, you can capture the true color of the mysterious planet. Some hypothesize that some sulfur dioxide...