spectra

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

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 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

The spectra of the little red dots differed significantly from known dust-reddened active galactic nuclei.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

When the object was first identified in 2018, spectra obtained with the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory showed no special features.

From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025

Hubble began to measure the spectra of distant galaxies–the business that Slipher had begun in Arizona.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson