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

The spectra revealed multiple metals -- elements heavier than helium -- mixed into the gas.

From Science Daily • Jan. 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

Balmer breaks can appear in the spectra of single, very hot, young stars, as well as in galaxies containing many such stars.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

Following a lead by the astronomer V. M. Slipher at Lowell Observatory, they began measuring the spectra of distant galaxies.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan