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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 be riddled with gaps. Instead of a perfect rainbow, the Sun’s light is ...
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After 200 years, scientists spot something missing in the Sun’s light

For more than two centuries, astronomers have treated the Sun’s spectrum as a solved problem, a textbook example of how light ...

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 ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

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 ...
Nature

Infra-Red Absorption Spectra of Crystals

SPECTROSCOPIC investigations on the scattering of light in crystals show very plainly that their vibration spectra have a discrete structure manifesting itself as a set of lines with sharply defined ...