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Why is the spectrum from our sun a combination of spectral types?.

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If you let the light from the Sun pass through a prism, the result is a wonderful display of all the colors of the rainbow. Separating the combined colors of the Sun like this gives you a "spectrum", which is just a measure of light emission as a function of energy (or wavelength, or frequency, which are all related).
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