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The benefit of studying white dwarfs, though, is that they give off less light than other types of stars.
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The principle behind these experiments is that particles hitting the xenon cause the nucleus of the atom to give off a little bit of light.
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Even something too small to emit visible light will probably give off radio waves and infra-red radiation (Jupiter does).
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Then he discovered a new Japanese method of cutting diamonds: When viewed under a low-magnification (3x) lens, the stone refracted light in such a way as to give off a pattern of eight heart-shaped sparkles at the bottom of the diamond and eight arrow-shaped fire-bursts through the top--hence the name "hearts-and-arrows" diamonds.
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