Test your expertise with these final projects
Apply what you know about light, color, and spectra to design a fish tank lighting system; explore exoplanet atmospheres; or analyze artworks as a museum conservator.
Fish tank
Create and light a saltwater reef aquarium that’s healthy and beautiful.
In this project, you’ll first explore how land plants reflect light. Then you’ll dive deeper by investigating a variety of plants, fish, and coral that live in saltwater aquaria. Lastly, you’ll choose a few to live in your tank how to light the tank so its they thrive.
Exoplanets
Explore the atmosphere of planets outside our solar system.
In this project, you’ll investigate the atmospheres of planets outside our solar system, then make a pitch for what exoplanet spectra you’d like to capture with the James Webb Space Telescope.
Museum conservation
Design a museum display that conveys how light, color, and spectra are used in art conservation.
In this project, you’ll learn how art conservators use light, color, and spectra to help them make decisions about how to best care for and restore works of art.