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Scientists Use Observatories to Learn About the Sun
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: 5-12
Year: 1976
This NASA video segment describes how a solar observatory tracks and monitors the sun. Viewers learn that mirrors in the observatory focus the sun's rays to a spectroscope and that the resulting spectral lines indicate the star's properties and motion.
Scientists Use Observatories to Learn About the Sun
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
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This video clip is part of the Universe DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
Other video learning clips in this series include:
The Universe Is Born
The Structure of the Sun and Solar Events
The Planets
A Look Beyond the Planets: Nebulae, Stars, Quasars and Galaxies
Lifecycle of a Star
The Evolving Universe
Is There Life Out There?: NASA's Search Continues