Artistic Representation of the Sun, the Earth and the Moon with the Space-Time Curvature of Einstein (IMAGE)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

Artistic Representation of the Sun, the Earth and the Moon with the Space-Time Curvature of Einstein

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Artistic representation of the Sun, the Earth and the Moon (not to scale) with the space-time curvature of Einstein's General Relativity over the spectrum of sunlight reflected from the Moon (in colors from blue to red). The spectrum is taken with the HARPS instrument and calibrated with the LFC.

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Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC).

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