Palimpsest

Lighting Up The Past And The Future

Posted by Orato

My father used to say that every problem can be solved by either a bigger hammer or more light. While the politicians swing their proverbial hammers scientists are lighting up not just the cosmic future, but also our cultural past. Much of what we know about extrasolar objects comes to us because of astronomical spectroscopy - ostensibly, the reading of light.

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