The Electromagnetic Spectrum

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• What causes gamma ray bursts?
• How are gamma ray bursts classified?
• How do gamma ray bursts affect earth?
• How far do gamma ray bursts travel?
• When the ultraviolet light from hot stars in very distant galaxies finally reaches us, it arrives at Earth in what form?
• What does ultraviolet light from hot stars in very distant galaxies reaches us in the form of?
• What are some advantages and disadvantages for using an ultraviolet telescope? Why is at better/easier or harder to use a UV telescope than another telescope like a radio telescope or an infrared telescope?
• How is imaging spectroscopy used in astronomy?
• What is spectroscopy? How does it detect the electromagnetic spectrum?
• What techniques are used to study the electromagnetic spectrum in space?
• How does spectrometry detect the electromagnetic spectrum?
• Who developed the maser?
• What is a maser? Who developed it?
• How do masers work compared to a laser?
• How does a maser measure the electromagnetic spectrum?
• How are masers and lasers similar?
• What is the smallest elementary particle?
• What are elementary particles?
• What are the elementary particles of nuclear physics?
• How are elementary particles detected?
• How can elementary particles decay?
• What is astroparticle physics?
• What are the main areas of study in astroparticle physics in relation to astrophysics?
• How do astrophysicists study astroparticles?
• What are astroparticles?
• Why does electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet region represent a larger energy transition than does radiation in the infrared region?
• How dangerous is electromagnetic radiation?
• What type of radiation is the electromagnetic spectrum?
• What is polarization? How is it related to the study of astronomy?
• What types of waves can be polarized?
• How are polarized waves of light studied?
• What is Rayleigh scattering?
• What is the difference between scattering and reflection?
• What is scattering of light?
• What is scattering angle?
• Light from the sun travels through space to Earth's atmosphere. What will light waves do when they move from empty space into matter made up of different gases?
• Can radio waves be used as a form of x-ray?
• Mobile phones send and receive data through electromagnetic waves. When a wave is emitted from a phone, the wave is received at the other end. What happens to the wave after that?
• What is the difference between electromagnetic waves and other waves?
• Why is sound not classified as an electromagnetic wave?
• How do electromagnetic waves travel?
• How do electromagnetic waves travel?
• What causes electromagnetic waves?
• What types of waves are in the electromagnetic spectrum?
• A space-based telescope can achieve a diffraction-limited angular resolution of 0.14 for red light (wavelength 650 nm). What would the resolution of the instrument be in the ultraviolet, at 150nm ?
• What instruments are used to measure electromagnetic waves?
• What is an interferometer?
• How are interferometers used to measure electromagnetic waves?
• Other than at the visible spectrum, when are most forms of electromagnetic radiation best studied?
• Do Brown Dwarfs emit visible light?
• What are some advantages and disadvantages of Michelson Interferometer?
• What is interferometry?
• What does interferometric mean?
• What is interferometric acuity?
• What is interferometric coherence?
• How do we hold objects (such as keys, books or anything else) if we have never touched anything?
• In which layer of the atmosphere are the ionized particles that cause the aurora borealis?