How Do You Read a Spectrum Plot?

What do the axes, continuum, peaks, dips, line width, and uncertainty say before any element is named?

Build a repeatable reading order that begins with units and signal quality before interpretation.

Starlight enters a scientific spectrograph and becomes a measured spectrum with absorption and emission features. — Vastward artistic reconstruction. The graph in the experiment is an original deterministic teaching spectrum.

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