Compare and contrast continuous, emission, and absorption spectra. What type of

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Compare and contrast continuous, emission, and absorption spectra.

What type of spectra would you expect to see if you observed our sun from a satellite orbiting the Earth? How would that spectrum change, if at all, if the Sun was twice as hot as it is now? Why?

What type of spectra would you expect to see it you observed a glowing field of hot, dense lava from the surface of the Earth and why? What if you observed the same field of hot, dense lava from a satellite orbiting outside the Earth's atmosphere? Would the spectrum you see be the same or different from what you observed on the surface? Why or why not?

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Sun primarily emit light in visible spectra. As the temperature of the sun increases to millions of degrees the sun will emit xrays. Since it is too hoted, there might be a chance of bremstrahlung production of xrays. The electrons may passing through may take a deviation and thus results in change in accelaration and finally in change in energy. thus xrays are produced

A color or spectrum observed from a glowing field of hot, dense lava is predominantly red, because this is the wavelength of light emitted by the excited hydrogen atoms.
The brightest by far and visible to the naked eye is the orion dense lava, so it will be differnt if we observed the same field of hot, dense lava from a satellite orbiting outside the Earth's atmosphere it will be orion red.

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