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1976 Redux: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. Many of the telescopes at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ), a Program of NSF NOIRLab, featured in this image, are equipped with spectrographs. These instruments separate light into its constituent colors, just as water droplets in rain clouds split sunlight into a rainbow. By measuring the light emanating from objects in space at…
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- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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- Kitt Peak National Observatory
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