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| Title: |
Starlight |
| Description: |
NIST researchers and collaborators measured the frequencies, or colors, of infrared starlight (three solid bands with faint tick marks indicating where light is absorbed by the atmosphere) by comparing the missing light to a laser frequency comb reference "ruler" (sets of bright vertical bars indicating precise wavelengths, which increase from left to right). The three sets of starlight and comb light are shown in false color, from deeper orange (the most light) to orange-white (slightly less light) to black (very little light).
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See also http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/comb-030612.cfm.
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| Type: |
Graphic/scientific data |
| Source: |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Credit Line as it should
appear in print: |
Credit: CU/NIST/Penn State |
| AV Number: |
12PML005 |
| Date Created: |
2012 |
| Date Entered: |
3/6/2012 |
