Invisible Colors of the Cosmos
Chapter 1

Rainbows of the night sky

Chapter 2

The invisible puppet masters

Chapter 3

Shaking the fabric of reality

Chapter 4

The echo of creation

YOUR GOAL

Master of How to read the secret code of the cosmos

Ch 1 · Rainbows of the night sky
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007skaty Specialized telescopes capture invisible light to map the hidden universe.

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007skaty Lunar Rainbows

Is that a white arc of light? (Oh, a white arc!) No, it's a rainbow at night! (Yeah, at night!) Just let the lens decode the colors! (Decode the colors!)

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We make sense of the distant by decoding the patterns we find close to home.

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007skaty Giant space mirrors look back in time.

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The invisible colors of the cosmos

007skaty Most of the light in the universe is completely invisible to human eyes.

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Looking back in time with giant mirrors

007skaty A clean 3D render displays the hexagonal gold mirrors of the James Webb Telescope.

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Night Rainbow Maker
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007skaty Direct moonlight through falling rain to discover how rare night rainbows are made.

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Fun Fact

Cosmic gold: The gold coating on the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors is only 100 nanometers thick, using just a golf-ball-sized amount of gold to coat the entire array.

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Gossip

Which cosmic superpower would you rather have?

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Quiz

How wide is the gold-coated primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope?

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007skaty Starlight carries hidden color barcodes that reveal the chemical ingredients of stars.

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When was the James Webb Space Telescope launched into space to peer at the early universe?

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007skaty Starlight stretches and changes color as galaxies move through space

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What color shift occurs when a galaxy is moving away from Earth?

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Which type of invisible light is primarily used by astronomers to peer through thick cosmic dust clouds?

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Which chemical element was discovered in the Sun's light barcode in 1868 before it was ever found on Earth?

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Which two German scientists discovered in 1859 that heated chemical elements produce unique color barcodes of light?

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Who discovered the first pulsar in 1967 using a radio telescope?

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What did Edwin Hubble discover in 1929 by studying the redshift of distant galaxies?

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