Spectacular spectrum reveals Sun's chemistry


This is what visible light from the sun looks like if you split it into its constituent colours. But playing with a prism at home will not give you this high-resolution masterpiece, which was created using a sophisticated spectrometer fixed to the world's largest solar telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

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