spectra

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"The spectra revealed that the signatures of the high-temperature plasma change velocity between the three observations, following the orbital motion of the white dwarf rather than that of the Be star," the researcher continues.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

The new approach allows scientists to simulate the vibrational spectra of complex and disordered materials at realistic temperatures with near-ab initio accuracy while significantly reducing computational cost.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 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

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