Make your own CD spectrometer

How do we know what the stars are made of when we've never been to one? Dr Andrew Steele shows us how to make a spectrometer, a device used by scientists to analyse light, using a cereal box and a CD.

Credits

Written and presented by Andrew Steele
Videography by Tom Fuller and Andrew Steele
Telescope images courtesy of NASA, ESA, Hubble, AURA/Caltech

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