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| Dec 6, 2012 at 12:53 | history | edited | Vladimir Kalitvianski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2012 at 11:51 | history | edited | Vladimir Kalitvianski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2012 at 11:29 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | In that case it cannot be optically thick (i.e., absorb everything). Such is rare gas around some cosmic objects. It demonstrates absorption lines in the spectrum and is transparent "between lines". | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 11:25 | comment | added | Claudius | Another point would probably be that an object made up entirely of hydrogen atoms is not necessarily a black body and hence does not necessarily obey Planck’s law. | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 11:13 | history | answered | Vladimir Kalitvianski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |