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alterom
41 days ago
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New study shows plants and animals emit a visible ...
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SkiFire13
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I thought black bodies emitted light the whole spectrum, albeit with differences in the distribution depending on their temperature?
Sharlin
41 days ago
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Yep, but the exponential decay at the short-wavelength end means you're going to hit a single-digit number of photons/m^2/s fairly quickly.
cenamus
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> 10–10^3 photons cm^–2 s^–1
So probably invisible but under the very darkest of conditions?
ricardobeat
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Visible refers to being
in the visible spectrum
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