Eli5: how do we know the properties of things in space like stars and planets if we’ve never been on them?

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Eli5: how do we know the properties of things in space like stars and planets if we’ve never been on them?

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Because those same properties exist here.

There are lots of way to test a matter. One of which is light. If hydrogen is blue, then the blue light shining off a distance planet or sun implies that it has hydrogen.

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