Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Visible Light Humans divide visible Light into “colours” Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet ROY-G-BIV
The Production of Light Light is produced by three main ways: Incandescence Hot things glow 3
The Production of Light Luminescence Electrons jump around
The Production of Light Chemoluminescence Chemical reactions Video – Bioluminescence
Speed of light The speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant. 300,000,000 m/s The speed of light in a medium is always slower than the speed of light in a vacuum.
Speed of Light Earth Moon 384,000,000 m About 1 Sec.
Looking Into The Past By looking at objects in the universe (stars and galaxies), you are looking into the past.
Looking Into The Past Time for the light to reach us Object The Moon 1.3 seconds The Sun 8 minutes Jupiter 35 to 52 minutes Pluto 5.5 hours Alpha Centauri (nearest star) 4.3 years Sirius (Brightest star in our sky) 9 years Betelgeuse (Another bright star) 430 years Orion Nebula 1500 years Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million years
Hubble Ultra Deep Field HUDF captures over 10,000 galaxies This picture represents a piece of the sky you would see by looking through a straw