Labels:text | clothing | human face | man | screenshot | person OCR: WILLIAM HUGGINS WILLIAM HUGGINS was a British astronomer who proved that celestial objects are made of elements found on Earth. He attached a spectroscope to a telescope and split the light he collected from the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and many of the brightest stars. He then compared their spectral lines (emission or absorption data that indicate chemical makeup) with laboratory-produced spectral lines and concluded that certain chemical elements are common throughout the Universe. He then went on to use this technique to distinguish between distant star clusters and nebulas. (1824-1910) A-Z SEL LIFE NEXT ALSO STORY