Sunlight reaches the earth as white light, which is made up of all the rainbow colors. Rainbow colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. It is easy to remember them by using the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Life for the 19th-century astronomer was kind of monotonous, 200 years after Galileo's ...

Diffraction gratings are beautiful things, bending transmitted and reflected light and splitting it into its component wavelengths to create attractive iridescent rainbow patterns. It’s the same ...