optical astronomy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Astronomy using observations using telescopes and recording media that capture visible light.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Radio astronomy is an extension of optical astronomy in that it allows the observer to "see radiations of wave lengths far greater than those of visible light"
- "Merely finding them in the first place — detecting their radio voices and photographing their odd and telltale light — was a cooperative triumph of radio and optical astronomy."
- "Since for the atmospheric windows in the NIR one normally uses the same telescopes as for optical astronomy, we will thus not distinguish between these"
- "Because each kind of light reveals different natural phenomena, we see only a part of nature. The same is true of telescopes. Optical telescopes detect only visible light. ... Dust is the bane of optical astronomy."
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Synonyms
visible-light astronomy