spectra
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Jerry Xuan, a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at UCLA, built sophisticated atmospheric models to compare with the telescope's spectra and determine whether sulfur was present.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 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 team also compared the images with spectra from major facilities such as Gemini.
From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025
Understanding the full picture requires precise measurements of the energy spectra of different cosmic ray species and their individual "knees."
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025
Some scientists think that when expansion is followed by contraction, when the spectra of distant galaxies are all blue-shifted, causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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