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  • | epoch = 3 January 1982 ([[Julian day|JD]] 2444972.5) | perihelion = 3.3639 [[Astronomical unit|AU]] ...
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  • {{Short description|Triplet of galaxies in the constellation Virgo}} ...r Galaxies]], compiled by [[Halton Arp]] in 1966. Galaxies 269 through 274 in his catalogue are galaxies that appear to have connected [[Spiral arm|arms] ...
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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 ...
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  • {{Short description|Variable star in the constellation Orion}} ...msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/iii/iii.dat |date=2017-06-20 }}, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia. Accessed on line December 8, 2008.</ref> ...
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  • {{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 ...
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  • {{Short description|Variable star in the constellation Scutum}} ...pulsating variable]] known as an [[RV Tauri variable]]. It was discovered in 1795 by [[Edward Pigott]] at a time when only a few [[variable star]]s were ...
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  • ...[Ellis R. Lippincott Award]] {{small|(1998)}}<br/>[[E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy]] {{small|(2002)}}<br/>[[Davy Medal]] {{small|(2004)}} ...is a Japanese-American [[spectroscopist]] and [[astronomer]] specializing in the field of [[galactic astronomy]], known as a pioneer of [[astrochemistry ...
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  • {{Short description|Astronomical problem concerning the age of the universe}} ...nally, objects such as galaxies, stars, and planets could not have existed in the extreme temperatures and densities shortly after the [[Big Bang]]. ...
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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 ...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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  • {{Short description|Interstellar object passed near Earth in 2017}} ...sive 4.2 meter diameter telescope is tracking the rapidly moving A/2017 U1 in the field of view. |url-status=live}}</ref>}} ...
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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. ...
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  • ...], while modifying [[Newton's laws of motion|Newton's second law]] results in modified inertia. The latter has received little attention compared to the ...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 ...
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  • {{Infobox astronomical event ...en inferred only indirectly, via their effect on the timing of [[pulsars]] in [[binary star]] systems. The [[waveform]], detected by both LIGO observator ...
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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 | discovered = 23 September 1846 ...
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  • ...electron microscope]] (SEM) photo of a dust particle collected by [[NASA]] in the [[stratosphere]] together with its [[energy-dispersive X-ray spectrosco ...n in order to obtain information on the [[astronomical object]]s occurring in [[outer space]]. Dust astronomy overlaps with the fields of [[Planetary sci ...
    167 KB (23,871 words) - 10:36, 17 February 2025
  • ...|Reaka-Kudla|Wilson|Wilson|1997|pp=132–33}} In turn, technology may result in the [[extinction of humanity]], leaving the planet to gradually return to a ..., Earth's axial tilt may begin to undergo chaotic variations, with changes in the axial tilt of up to 90°.<ref name=aaa318/> ...
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  • ...Poisson]]. The process itself was discovered independently and repeatedly in several settings, including experiments on [[radioactive decay]], telephone ...s, Volume II- Applications'', volume 4, No 1–2 of ''Foundations and Trends in Networking''. NoW Publishers, 2009.</ref><ref name="Haenggi2009">M. Haenggi ...
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  • ...com/article/us-britain-hawking-ashes/stephen-hawking-to-join-newton-darwin-in-final-resting-place-idUSKBN1GW2GV |archive-date=21 March 2018 |url-status=l ...dal]] (2006)|[[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (2009)|[[Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics]] (2012)|[[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ...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]]. ...
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