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Apart from meteorites and a few hundred kilograms of lunar rock samples, all our information about the physical Universe comes to us via electromagnetic radiation. Visible light is just one form of this radiation.
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© 1988 Gerald North
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North, G. (1988). Electromagnetic Radiation. In: Mastering Astronomy. Macmillan Mastering Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19604-3_15
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