People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

One of the best visualizations ever produced of the spectrum of light from our glorious Sun reveals some mysterious holes in its array of colors. Most of the thousands of dark Fraunhofer lines in the ...

It is a bit tamer than you might imagine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you look up at the night sky, it's easy to think ...

NASA has just released two images from its recent near-infrared SPHEREx mission. This is an incredible near-infrared space ...

For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

French physicist Gabriel Lippmann pioneered color photography and snagged the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his efforts. But according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National ...

During a total solar eclipse, people may see some strange things. Sure, there’s the main event happening in the sky (SN: 1/4/24). But the world may also look a little different on the ground. For a ...

On July 12, the first full-color images from the Webb Space Telescope showed countless nebulae, galaxies, and a gassy exoplanet as they had never been seen before. But Webb only collects infrared and ...

One of my favorite things about science is how a very simple question can lead you down a rabbit hole. Here’s one for you: What color is the sun? Most people, I’d wager, would say yellow. You probably ...

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