{"id":3926626,"date":"2026-06-22T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/titan-and-pluto-exhibit-the-same-mysterious-spectral-feature-and-researchers-cant-figure-out-its-origin\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:03:11","slug":"titan-and-pluto-exhibit-the-same-mysterious-spectral-feature-and-researchers-cant-figure-out-its-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/titan-and-pluto-exhibit-the-same-mysterious-spectral-feature-and-researchers-cant-figure-out-its-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan and Pluto exhibit the same mysterious spectral feature\u2014and researchers can&#8217;t figure out its origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers are constantly sifting through new spectral data gathered by powerful telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Most of the time, when they identify spectral features\u2014specific absorption or emission lines from different types of light gathered from a planet, moon or star\u2014these features are known to be caused by certain atoms or molecules. For example, the emission line at 426.7 nanometers is known to come from singly ionized carbon, representing a specific atomic transition between energy states of a carbon ion.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-titan-pluto-mysterious-spectral-feature.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are constantly sifting through new spectral data gathered by powerful telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Most of the time, when they identify spectral features\u2014specific absorption or emission lines from different types of light gathered from a planet, moon or star\u2014these features are known to be caused by certain atoms or molecules. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}