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   Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 10:07:54 JST Kelly Lepo

   An interesting thing happens when you take the infrared light from an object, like this planet-forming disk, and spread out the light by wavelength into a spectrum. You sometimes get these regularly spaced peaks in brightness.

   It turns out that this comes from the vibration of molecules, like carbon monoxide (CO).

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