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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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North, G. (1997). Electromagnetic Radiation. In: Astronomy Explained. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0901-3_15
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