visible spectrum

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For most humans, ultraviolet light exists outside of the visible spectrum.

From New York Times

There are seven colors in the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

From Los Angeles Times

The meteorite, which produces a color unlike any on the visible spectrum, affects humans, too, driving one farm family to depredation and death.

From New York Times

Although ZTF detected a flare in the visible spectrum, Ford says that flares from other black hole mergers would be easier to spot in ultraviolet wavelengths.

From Scientific American

But the sky might not look more blue over all; the blue shift could be canceled out by faint infrared stars shifting into the visible spectrum, adding new dim red stars to the mix.

From New York Times