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Spectra is the plural of spectrum. You could discuss the spectrum generated by an element in a star, and comparing more than one element, you would be comparing spectra. (Latin -um words form plurals like this, so you cannot refer to them as spectrums. Another example is datum, singular, and data, plural.)

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