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Why is the spectrum of a star called an absorption spectrum?
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Why is the spectrum of a star called an absorption spectrum?
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It is called absorption spectrum because a gas of hydrogen will make a line spectrum and if viewed for another angle it would be between a continuum light and a emission line spectrum
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