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...here]]s to the evolution of [[Galaxy|galaxies]]. From 2010 until his death in late 2015 he was an [[emeritus]] professor of [[astronomy]] at the [[Univer ...ies. In 1964 Spinrad was invited to return to Berkeley as a professor, and in 1968 he received tenure.<ref name="oral_history"/><ref name="berkeley_astro ...

{{Short description|Star in the constellation Ara}} ...r Westerlund 1: The Initial Mass Function and Mass Segregation|journal=The Astronomical Journal|volume=145|issue=2|pages=46|last1=Lim|first1=Beomdu|last2=Chun|firs ...

{{short description|Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia}} ...after [[Paolo Maffei]], who discovered it and the neighboring [[Maffei 2]] in 1967 via their [[infrared]] emissions. ...

...body]] of the [[Solar System]] – thus completing a full cycle of [[season|astronomical season]]s. For example, it is the time from [[March equinox|vernal equinox] ...around the Sun as measured with respect to the [[fixed stars]], resulting in a duration of 20 [[minute (time)|minute]]s longer than the tropical year, b ...

...e:Barnard2005.gif|thumb|[[Barnard's Star]], showing position every 5 years in the period 1985–2005. Barnard's Star is the star with the highest [[proper In [[astronomy]], '''stellar kinematics''' is the [[Observational astronomy|ob ...

...ly form of [[Cave painting|cave markings]] and drawings, [[calendar]]s and astronomical symbols. Then books and written records became the main source of informati ...previous models, thus, the early models are kept track of by intellectuals in astronomy, an extended progress from trying to perfect the [[Geocentric orb ...

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...ts z~10.4-13.2. The most distant galaxies at z=13.20 and z=12.63 are newly discovered by JADES NIRCam imaging, while the z=10.38 and z=11.58 galaxies confirm pre ...astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. ...

{{Short description|Problem in physics and celestial mechanics}} {{About|the problem in classical mechanics|the problem in quantum mechanics|Many-body problem|engineering problems and simulations in ...

Egyptian inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques which owe their existence or first known written a ...ty of Kadesh.jpg|thumb|Tablet of one of the earliest recorded [[treaties]] in history, [[Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty|Treaty of Kadesh]], at the [[Istan ...

...47.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]] wrote aerodynamic studies in a notebook eventually titled <nowiki>''</nowiki>[[Codex on the Flight of Bi ...discoveries''' are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by [[Italians]]. ...

...de potential]]|content='''[[Absolute electrode potential]]'''}}{{defn|defn=In [[electrochemistry]], according to an [[IUPAC]] definition,<ref>[https://go ...rate at which the velocity of a body changes with time, and the direction in which that change is acting.}} ...

...]]'''}}{{defn|defn=(''The double integration method'') is a technique used in [[structural analysis]] to determine the [[Deflection (engineering)|deflect ...an [[arithmetic logic unit]] (ALU) operation on one or more units of data in the CPU's [[processor register|register]]s or [[CPU cache|memory]].}} ...