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spectra

[spek-truh] / ˈspɛk trə /
NOUN
color spectrum
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The team also compared the images with spectra from major facilities such as Gemini.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

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

Crucially, the simulated light spectra closely matched what astronomers observe from real systems.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

Since then, spectra from JWST's NIRSpec instrument became available for those, and a few other extremely distant objects.

From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025

Hubble began to measure the spectra of distant galaxies–the business that Slipher had begun in Arizona.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson