spectra

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

From Science Daily

"The most important thing is that spectra give very precise distances to these objects," said Leja.

From Scientific American

On the surface, they occupied opposite ends of the intellectual and philosophical spectra.

From Los Angeles Times

Comparing the spectra in this arc confirms this speculation: it represents a single galaxy, warped and mirrored by gravitational lensing.

From Scientific American

So Shenar and his colleagues developed a technique called spectral disentanglement, an algorithm that iteratively adjusts the spectra of two hypothetical orbiting stars until their combined light matches the observations.

From Science Magazine