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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 ...

| perihelion = 3.3639&nbsp;[[Astronomical unit|AU]] ...a close approach to Jupiter. In the 43 years since its discovery only two objects with higher eccentricities have been identified, [[1I/ʻOumuamua]] (1.2) and ...

{{short description|Double star in the constellation Caelum}} ...ransformed to UBV (unpublished)|journal=Catalogue of Eggen's UBV Data|date=1986|bibcode= 1986EgUBV........0M}}</ref> ...

| discovered = 4 October 2012 | aphelion = 1.8786&nbsp;[[Astronomical unit|AU]] ...

{{Short description|Binary star in the constellation Dorado}} '''WOH G64''' ('''IRAS 04553-6825''') is a [[symbiotic binary]] in the [[Large Magellanic Cloud]] (LMC), roughly 160,000 [[light-year]]s from ...

{{Short description|Variable star in the constellation Hydra}} '''U Hydrae''' is a single<ref name=Eggleton2008/> [[star]] in the [[celestial equator|equatorial]] [[constellation]] of [[Hydra (constell ...

{{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]]. ...

...[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 ...

{{short description|Astronomical object not gravitationally bound to a star}} ...2I/Borisov]] comet, the second confirmed interstellar object, photographed in late-2019 beside a distant galaxy]] ...

...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 ...

...l measurement, but it provides a way to measure the masses of astronomical objects without requiring assumptions about their composition or dynamical state. ...laxies. The distortion shown here is greatly exaggerated relative to real astronomical systems.]] ...

...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 ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

...[[Ptolemy's table of chords|calculation of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric ratios Throughout history, trigonometry has been applied in areas such as [[geodesy]], [[surveying]], [[celestial mechanics]], and [[na ...

{{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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...R upper limits and NICER X-ray analysis of SGR J1935+2154 for the outburst in 2022|eprint=2410.00635|class=astrophysics}} </ref> ...n 20 solar masses, although a more massive star may produce a neutron star in certain cases. ...

...g list is composed of objects, concepts, phenomena and processes that were discovered or invented by people from the [[Netherlands]]. ...ossils of ''Pithecanthropus erectus'' (now ''Homo erectus'') found in Java in 1891. Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,000,000 years old, at the time ...