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Why is blue light extincted more strongly than red?
We know that blue light suffers extinction more strongly than red (examples include ISM, atmosphere etc.), but why? Is it a property of the shorter wavelength itself? Can someone provide a conceptual ...
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What would the night sky look like if the interstellar medium didn't exist to absorb or block light?
I was curious about how much brighter it would be and how much further we could see.
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Speed of light through the ISM and Wavelength
Articles written about fast radio bursts describe the signal's short-wavelength components arriving before its longer-wavelength components, suggesting energy-dependent time delays in the interstellar ...
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