Spectroscopy
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Spectroscopy disperses a star's light into its component wavelengths, revealing spectral absorption and emission lines that encode temperature, chemical composition, radial velocity, and surface gravity. It is the single most powerful diagnostic tool in astrophysics.
Category: Observational Astronomy