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Some colors are missing from the sun, and nobody knows why

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...
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NASA’s Webb Identifies Methane In an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

The measured transit spectrum (top) and eclipse spectrum (bottom) of WASP-80 b from NIRCam’s slitless spectroscopy mode on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. In both spectra, there is clear evidence ...
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There are colors missing from the sun – and we still can't fully explain why

One of the best visualizations ever produced of the spectrum of light from our glorious Sun reveals some mysterious holes in its array of colors. Most of the thousands of dark Fraunhofer lines in the ...

Are colours disappearing from the Sun’s Light? Here is what's really happening

Scientists have discovered missing colours in the Sun’s light spectrum. Hundreds of dark absorption lines remain unexplained, hinting towards hidden processes in our nearest star’s mysterious ...
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Differential Absorption Lidar for Atmospheric Measurements

Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) has emerged as a pivotal tool in the remote sensing of atmospheric constituents. This technique exploits the difference in absorption at selected wavelengths to ...
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Visible and IR Spectrum of Titan’s surface and atmosphere recorded by DISR onboard Huygens

During the Huygens descent to the surface of Titan the DISR instrument recorded visible and infrared spectra (the change in the amount of light with varying colour or wavelength) of the ambient ...