The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
reveal that whole areas of the sky are filled with more
light than others and that this light is graded, with a
concentration toward the galactic plane and, of
course, there is the brilliant galactic nucleus or center.
Until about 40 years ago, our knowledge of the
cosmos outside the sphere of the Earth came almost
entirely only from the light we could collect with large
mirrors and lenses via telescopes. In fact "light" meant
to us the eye and only the visual part of the
electromagnetic spectrum. The atmosphere
surrounding the Earth is largely opaque (blocks) to
most parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, although
there are several transparent regions through which
we may receive light and thus "look" out into deep
space.
These have been termed "windows," and the two
most important windows are the optical and radio
bands of the light spectrum. If we compare these two
windows to the sound spectrum, the radio window
represents a ten-octave span, while the optical
(visual) window represents a little less than a single
octave! There are several other bands of relative
transparency in the Infrared range through which
appear an almost entirely different set of stars and
constellations. In fact, the range of energy between
the extremes of the electromagnetic spectrum is so
great that very different techniques have evolved for
their study.
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