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  • ...Science goals and selection criteria |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=413 |issue=2 |pages=813–836 |year=2011 |last1=Cappellari |f ...rties, suppressed by a factor of 50 to 150. Authors have put forth several hypotheses to explain these observations. The most likely scenario is that the AGN-dri ...
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  • ...ula or planetary [[accretion disc]] has a comparatively short lifetime, in astronomical terms, before annihilation with the terrene matter that it is mixed with. T ...imatter microcomets are thought to reside at distances of more than 1000 [[astronomical units|AU]].<ref name=Dermer1996/> Calculations have shown that comets of ar ...
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  • ...reported their newly discovered TNO satellites to the [[Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams]], which announced their discovery of Vanth alongside three other ...or the satellite, with the best one to be submitted to the [[International Astronomical Union]] (IAU) on 5 April.<ref name="MBP-Mar09"/> The name [[Vanth]], the wi ...
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  • | aphelion = 45.488 [[Astronomical unit|AU]] ({{val|6.805|ul=Tm}}) ...l degrees gives ({{mvar|α}}, {{mvar|δ}}) {{=}} (259.82°, +53.45°). Then, [[Astronomical coordinate systems#Equatorial ↔ ecliptic|transforming]] these equatorial co ...
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  • ...ptember 2023 |author1=Katherine Brown |author2=Harsh Mathur |journal=[[The Astronomical Journal]] |language=en |volume=166 |issue=4 |pages=168 ff |doi=10.3847/1538 ...ve and the dark matter halo of M33 |journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |volume=311 |issue=2 |pages=441–447 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000 ...
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  • ...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 ===Pythagorean astronomical system=== ...
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  • ...ald-m-hunten-1925-2010|title=Donald M. Hunten (1925 - 2010) {{!}} American Astronomical Society|website=aas.org|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref> The following year, [[Category:Meteorological hypotheses]] ...
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  • ...averaging more than 250&nbsp;times that of the Earth i.e. over 250&nbsp;[[astronomical unit]]s (AU). These ETNOs tend to make their closest approaches to the Sun ...to ten times that of the Earth, and an [[elongated orbit]] 400–800&nbsp;[[astronomical unit|AU]]. The orbit estimation was refined in 2021, resulting in a somewha ...
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  • {{Short description|Astronomical high energy transient pulse}} ...Balles |first=Matthew |title=Not all fast radio bursts are created equal – Astronomical signals called fast radio bursts remain enigmatic, but a key discovery has ...
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  • ...n as [[intermediate-velocity cloud]]s (IVCs). Several astronomers proposed hypotheses (which later proved to be inaccurate) regarding the nature of HVCs, but the *:The Astronomical Journal, Volume 125, Issue 6, pp.&nbsp;3122–3144; June 2003. ...
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  • ...energy interactions like the [[radioactive decay]] of [[atomic nuclei]] or astronomical events like solar flares. It consists of the shortest [[wavelength]] electr ...ay]]s in the 100–1000 teraelectronvolt (TeV) range have been observed from astronomical sources such as the [[Cygnus X-3]] [[microquasar]]. ...
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  • ...endulum to keep time, which had already been proposed by people engaged in astronomical observations such as [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]].<ref name=":0" /> [[Clock| In the second part of the book, Huygens states three hypotheses on the motion of bodies, which can be seen as precursors to [[Newton's laws ...
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  • ...14th and 15th centuries, before the development of [[celestial navigation|astronomical navigation]]. Alternative hypotheses (not nearly as accepted) are that "marteloio" is a corruption of ''mari log ...
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  • ...made consistent with relativity by introducing [[ad hoc hypothesis|ad hoc hypotheses]].<ref name=Will /> In more recent papers (2005, 2006) Will referred to tho Observations of the arrival of radiation from distant astronomical events have shown that the one-way speed of light does not vary with freque ...
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  • ...om/mnras/article/527/4/11521/7511973 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=527 |issue=4 |pages=11521–11538 |doi=10.1093/mnras/stad3761 ...named after [[Neptune (mythology)|the Roman god of the sea]] and has the [[astronomical symbol]] {{nowrap|[[File:Neptune symbol (fixed width).svg|16px|♆]],}} repre ...
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  • ...one of the central issues in any empirical science. To confirm results or hypotheses by a repetition procedure is at the basis of any scientific conception. A r ...alue|''p''-value]]") is the probability level. This should result in 5% of hypotheses that are supported being false positives (an incorrect hypothesis being err ...
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  • ...and [[mineral]]ogical composition in order to obtain information on the [[astronomical object]]s occurring in [[outer space]]. Dust astronomy overlaps with the fi ...e Earth's surface. Meteorites were considered solid fragments from other [[astronomical object]]s such as [[planet]]s, [[asteroid]]s, comets, or [[Natural satellit ...
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  • * When the [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey]] (SDSS) began to collect astronomical data in 2000, it amassed more in its first few weeks than all data collecte ...he [[multiple comparisons problem]]: simultaneously testing a large set of hypotheses is likely to produce many false results that mistakenly appear significant. ...
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  • ...edo]]'''}}{{defn|defn=A measure of the fraction of light reflected from an astronomical body or other object.}} ...testing|statistical hypothesis test]]. In the domain of science two rival hypotheses can be compared by [[explanatory power]] and [[predictive power]].}} ...
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