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Might be worth mentioning the use of Doppler shift of the known patterns of spectral lines associated with elements to get information about radial velocity of e.g. a star being observed.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l4_p7.html

Hyperfine splitting of spectral lines in hydrogen gas caused by the interaction between electron and neutron spin allows you to map the hydrogen in our local Galaxy.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/h21.html

As parent post says this is pretty standard astrophysics, just find any reasonable text in your local library. Or just Google 'astronomy .pdf' for a huge range of handbooks and presentations.



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