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stellar spectra



Today we were talking about the red shift in class.I was explaining that
the hydrogen lines are shifted towards the red end of the spectrum if the
star is moving away from us. What bothers me is that the spectrum of the
sun is a continuous spectrum with dark absorption lines. How does one
observe the hydrogen lines to see if there is a red shift?