How does a spectroscope work? - TimesMojo

ProximA (Proxinova Education) on Instagram: "We all know sunlight looks white… But when you pass it through a prism, it spreads into 7 beautiful colors — a rainbow 🌈 This is called dispersion. Now here’s where the mind-blowing part happens 🤯 Scientists don’t just see colors — they look very closely at the light using something called a spectroscope. Each element in the universe gives its own special pattern of colored lines — like a barcode of light. So when scientists observed the Sun’s light

Spectroscopy | Overview, Types & Techniques