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
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 spectra of the little red dots differed significantly from known dust-reddened active galactic nuclei.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 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
Humason and Hubble found, to their amazement, that the spectra of all the distant galaxies are red-shifted and, still more startling, that the more distant the galaxy was, the more red-shifted were its spectral lines.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
