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Stories about: light spectroscopy

New Quantum Theory Test Uses Electrons Rydberg's constant, is a physical measure specifying the exact light frequency given off by an atom while an electron jumps from a certain energy level to a lower one. This number is critical for light spectroscopy techniques trying to determine the concentrations and types of chemical elements inside distant st... 30 April 2008 09:25 GMT How Do Food Tasters Work? Oh... here's a little gadget that will surely get some people fired. You know how sometimes you hear a tune on the radio, but you never seem to get its name? Luckily, they have invented the music analyzer that records the melody and automatically searches its name on the Internet. Well, it seems you can do the ... 10 January 2008 07:21 GMT The Kuiper Belt Shines Rainbow Colors Now, we consider that the outer solar system lies somewhere beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune, meaning for example the Kuiper belt, thought to be the source of the short-period orbit comets, and the Oort cloud lying more than one light year away from the Sun, which could probably be the location where long-peri... 3 January 2008 05:39 GMT