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Sodium sometimes absorbs orange-yellow light, sometimes emits it? Huh?

Usually, we are told that sodium emits orangish-yellowish light, which is why city streetlamps are that color. Now, I read in New Scientist magazine that exoplanet WASP-96b is bluish because the ...
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