BBC Science The Theory of (nearly) Everything 2019

(Martin Jones) #1
A ground-breaking experiment
studying the spectrum of light
revealed the first signs of elements
making up the Sun. Later, a scientific
pioneer found that every star
in the Universe consists
almost entirely of just
two elements.

The Pleiades star cluster, also known
as the Seven Sisters. Thanks to
spectroscopy, we can identify the
elements it’s made from


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