spectral

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Larger cavities caused a smooth shift of the resonance toward longer wavelengths, while changes in depth altered both the spectral position and the vertical location of the optical mode.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 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

Here are a few personal favorites, beginning with three from Mike Flanagan, TV’s master spinner of spectral tales.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

It felt very spectral and almost phantasmagorical and certainly not a depiction of a truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

I focused back on the spectral woman whose voice was becoming more strained.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall