EM Spectrum Energies
1. Infrared emissions from the Earth
(false color)
http://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module2/energy-budget.php
2. Gamma ray burst from a gigantic star
collapsing into a black hole (false color)
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasasees-watershed-cosmic-blast-in-uniquedetail/#.VZrAyqZ7Bfk
3. Microwave emissions from the
early universe (false color)
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Spa
ce_Science/Planck/Planck_reveals_an
_almost_perfect_Universe
4. Radio emissions from Jupiter (false color)
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/201
1/04/radio-telescopes-zeroing-in-on-alienplanets.html
5. Sun in ultraviolet light (false color)
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/
why-nasa-studies-the-ultraviolet-sun
6. Sun in visible light (true color)
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ypop/Spotli
ght/Today/visible.html
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Answers:
7. Supernova (a giant exploding star)
in X-rays (false color)
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/11
_xrays.html
4 - radio waves (lowest energy)
3 - microwaves
1 – infrared light
6 – visible light
5 – ultraviolet light
7 – X-rays
2 – gamma rays (highest energy)
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