spectra

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Those spectra tracked changing signatures in the ejected gas, and new spectral features matched up with structures seen in the interferometric images, providing a direct one-to-one confirmation of how the flows were forming and colliding.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

The team also compared the images with spectra from major facilities such as Gemini.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

They also know how stars should appear in images and in detailed measurements of their light known as spectra.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

Balmer breaks can appear in the spectra of single, very hot, young stars, as well as in galaxies containing many such stars.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

Different stars have different spectra, but the relative brightness of the different colors is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking