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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 be riddled with gaps. Instead of a perfect rainbow, the Sun’s light is ...
During a total solar eclipse, people may see some strange things. Sure, there’s the main event happening in the sky (SN: 1/4/24). But the world may also look a little different on the ground. For a ...
You can project all sorts of colors from a video projector, but can you project the color black? Wouldn't that be like shooting a shadow out of a flashlight? I mean ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like ...