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What is Research? (cont)

Example: astronomer discovering rotating star pairs

Observation:

  • individual stars that appear to pulsate/change
    (changing brightness, different spectra at different times, ...)

Hypothesis:

  • such "stars" are actually rotating pairs   (intuition)

Test:

  • examine stars using different instruments
    (e.g. very powerful optical observation to reveal individual stars)