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How are light and astronomy related?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Studying light is one part of astronomy. Things like the speed of light, how it travels, the spectrum of light are all things that are used in studying astronomy. Studying light emitted from a star can tell us all sorts of things about it, like how far away it is and how bright it really is.

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