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When sunlight is spread out into its different colors or wavelengths, it is cut by several dark gaps. They were first noticed by the English astronomer William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828) in 1802 (Wollaston 1802), and then investigated in greater detail by the When sunlight is spread out into its different colors or wavelengths, it is cut by several dark gaps.
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Lang, K. (2013). Detecting Atoms in Stars. In: Essential Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35963-7_6
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