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Explain how we use a spectrometer to help us determine what stars and planets are made of?
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Explain how we use a spectrometer to help us determine what stars and planets are made of?

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When light passes through various chemical elements, different spectral patterns are created. By matching those patterns up to patterns generated in a laboratory environment we can tell what the composition of a distant star or planet is.
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