Anybody else enjoy learning about the Fraunhofer lines on COSMOS tonight?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I can't remember where I first read the term "Fraunhofer lines" but I immediately associated the name with "lines". Absorption spectra from elements in stars. The guy invented the spectroscope.

I love the fact that NDT keeps saying "Question everything! That's how science works!"

I also caught the reference to the monastery at Beueren and thought, "Aha! That's where they found the poems that comprise Carmina Burana."

(The text, not the Carl Orff version of the music, although there is another much older piece of music that accompanies some of the poems.)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Since I never studied physics, this was very new for me.

It's fascinating. I am really enjoying everything he has to say.

It does go by awfully fast, though.

Maybe the next time I hear something about these topics, I will remember and then I'll maybe know more.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. I never took physics either.

But when I was young I did a lot of reading on astronomy and used star charts and a pair of binoculars to look at stars. Got charts from Edmund Scientific.

[nytemare]

3. I am loving this show.

And Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the perfect successor to Carl Sagan. I enjoyed the segment in the original Cosmos about Milton Humason's work with Hubble, measuring the distant galaxies, and the Doppler Effect on light.

Now, I do not have a degree, but I love science, and believe that understanding it is of the utmost importance. A bell went off in my brain. The way they measure the elements on other planets, and other stars is the same way we detect the elements here on Earth. Whether it be a blood test, crime lab, breath test, etc. It all uses the same scientific principle.