The less energy, the closer to the red edge. When aequorin’s blue flash was triggered, some of the energy from the blue light was being stolen by green protein, stripping it of energy and causing it to move closer to the red end of the spectrum. This explained why the jellyfish were studded with green lights, even though aequorin’s flash is blue. This kind of reaction—where light with more energy is made into light with less energy—is called fluorescence. In the wake of this discovery green protein was renamed green fluorescent protein, or
The less energy, the closer to the red edge. When aequorin’s blue flash was triggered, some of the energy from the blue light was being stolen by green protein, stripping it of energy and causing it to move closer to the red end of the spectrum. This explained why the jellyfish were studded with green lights, even though aequorin’s flash is blue. This kind of reaction—where light with more energy is made into light with less energy—is called fluorescence. In the wake of this discovery green protein was renamed green fluorescent protein, or