Mysore/Mysuru, April 8 -- Renowned astronomer Dr. B.S. Shylaja, Visiting Scientist and former Director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru, emphasised the importance of advanced spectroscopy in the study of sunlight and stellar phenomena.

Delivering a special lecture titled 'Spectroscopy - A Tool to Understand the Inaccessible' at the Einstein Auditorium of the Department of Physics, Manasagangothri, University of Mysore (UoM), she explained that although sunlight appears white, it is actually composed of seven colours. Spectroscopy, she noted, is the key to studying this scattering of light.

The lecture was organised by the Department of Physics in collaboration with the Cosmology Education and Research Training Centre (COSM...