How to Use spectrograph in a Sentence

spectrograph

noun

• The tempo, the mood, the spectrograph, the acoustics, the time of day?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2020
• And of course the scientists would all go and set up telescopes and spectrographs.
  — Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
• The spectrograph detected telltale signs of water vapor in the form of clouds and haze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• Its spectrographs could also potentially pick up the red and blue shifts in light caused by the star's motion.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
• The spectrograph for lead [right] dropped from a high level in the month before death, a clue that his routine changed during that time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• Backlit ghosts don’t show up in my scope, and the sunset had seemed to follow me and my spectrograph to every new angle.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Kate has since seen the bright blue spectrographs showing gaps in conversation—where the pauses occur.
  — Michael Erard, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2019
• My daughter, Starling, looked so small in my viewfinder, struggling under the weight of her spectrograph.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• These spectrographs are designed to pick up wobbles as slight as 10 centimeters per second.
  — Corey S. Powell, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2019
• Optical fibers manually attached to each hole caught each galaxy's light and fed it to a spectrograph.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
• In the next few years, astronomers hope these combs could help improve the precision of stellar spectrographs by a factor of 10, if not more.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2011
• These fibers carry the light from each galaxy into a spectrograph, which spreads out the light into a spectrum showing the amount of light given off at each wavelength.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
• Locating the Lyman break requires imaging with with a spectrograph, which can sample the full spectrum of near-infrared light.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 31 July 2024
• The Webb telescope, which just spotted its first exoplanet, will prove useful in this endeavor, thanks to its near-infrared spectrograph.
  — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
• The second key ability provided by a spectrograph is the tracking of the motion materials.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
• The first step is to measure a target galaxy’s atomic emission and absorption chemical spectra using a spectrograph.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• The instrument weighs 80 pounds, has an imaging spectrograph that measures light wavelength intensity.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Each of those boxes sends light to a spectrograph, which breaks the light apart by wavelength to get information such as composition and motion, including speed and direction.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2019
• Imaging with a spectrograph provided evidence of water at the Martian surface in the region, reinforcing the idea that this could be ice.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2018
• Astronomers discern such subtleties by using a spectrograph to split a star’s light into its constituent colors, looking for Doppler shifts in the rainbowlike spectrum.
  — John Wenz, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
• This device has a camera and a spectrograph, and observes a kind of light from distant galaxies, coalescing stars, comets and objects in the Kuiper Belt.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• The nebula’s colors appear vivid because of a filter in the spectrograph that allows specific wavelengths of light to pass through, corresponding to specific types of gas.
  — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
• And in recent decades, big questions about the structure and composition of the universe have called for specialized cameras and spectrographs capable of surveying large patches of the sky.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
• Piette said an atmosphere would allow gases like water vapor to absorb some wavelengths of light, keeping the telescope's spectrograph from measuring them actually.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
• Other equipment suggested for the chip include a spectrograph to identify the chemistry of a planet’s atmosphere and a magnetometer to measure a star’s magnetic field.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
• The mission is now slated for a 2025 launch, but, Sunyaev says, some collaborators, including a German team supplying a spectrograph, have dropped out.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2019
• For almost a decade now, a dedicated team of Lithuanian astronomers has been trying to answer this conundrum using a state-of-the-art spectrograph at a telescope some 70 km outside Vilnius.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• One of the new instrument’s primary goals will be to use a spectrograph to break up the light from these distant worlds into a spectrum, which can then be analyzed for specific signals associated with certain chemicals in the planet’s atmosphere.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• Another light will then appear far overhead as the second stage of the Black Brant rocket fires, carrying an ultraviolet spectrograph 160 miles above northern Alaska.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• To test that assumption, the research team used the JWST's powerful infrared spectrographs to analyze the chemical makeup of the planets' atmospheres.
  — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026