HST SM4: Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
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Spectroscopes or spectrographs are absolutely essential in that toolbox of astronomical tools that are so important for research. They produce ugly pictures. But they are the nuts and bolts of physical science. They put the physics in astrophysics.
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