spectra

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"The spectra revealed that the signatures of the high-temperature plasma change velocity between the three observations, following the orbital motion of the white dwarf rather than that of the Be star," the researcher continues.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Researchers have collected more than 600 million spectra from a region of sky spanning an area equivalent to more than 2,000 full Moons.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The new approach allows scientists to simulate the vibrational spectra of complex and disordered materials at realistic temperatures with near-ab initio accuracy while significantly reducing computational cost.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

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

It soon became clear that Humason was better able to obtain high-quality spectra of distant galaxies than any professional astronomer in the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan