sábado, 25 de septiembre de 2010

Vocabulary#5: Tools of Astronomers

Univers: everything that exist.

telescope: a divice that collects light and m ake distance objects appear closer and larger.

refraction: the bending of wavesas they go from one substances to another.


reflection: the bouncing of waves off a surface.

wavelength: the distance from one peak to the next on a wave.

frequency: the number of waves that pass through a point in a second.

electromagnetic spectrum: waves of light in order by wavelength.

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