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  • {{short description|Open cluster in the constellation Carina}} | caption = Open cluster NGC 3114 in Carina ...
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  • {{Short description|Pulsar in the constellation Sagitta}} ...ock]]. The red and white are the colors of the shock structures discovered in [[x-ray]] by the [[Chandra X-ray Observatory]].}} ...
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  • {{Short description|Star in the constellation Aquila}} ...olved stars: Application to HD 179821|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=388|issue=2|pages=716|last1=Nordhaus|first1=J.|last2=Minchev ...
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  • ...close to what a human eye would have seen, and is caused by layers of haze in the atmosphere ...face pressure of the atmosphere of Pluto, measured by ''[[New Horizons]]'' in 2015, is about {{nobr|1 [[Pascal (unit)|Pa]]}} ({{nobr|10 μ[[Bar (unit)|bar ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • {{Short description|Large collections of gas found in the galactic halo of the Milky Way}} ...Cs around the Andromeda Galaxy, but this treats the phenomena as Milky Way objects|date= April 2013}} ...
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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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  • ...[[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 ...
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  • ...|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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  • ...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 ...
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  • {{Short description|Electromagnetic radiation from a charged particle in a medium}} [[File:Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|thumb|right|Cherenkov radiation glowing in the core of the [[Advanced Test Reactor]] at [[Idaho National Laboratory]]] ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...d|amorphous]] ices have been observed. In modern history, phases have been discovered through scientific research with various techniques including pressurizatio ...he universe. Various other phases could be found naturally in astronomical objects. ...
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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 ...
    117 KB (17,604 words) - 11:05, 21 February 2025
  • ...><ref name="EKWXb" /><ref name="UxcVg" /> and it is the largest [[planet]] in the [[Solar System]].<ref name="Ujyhy" />]] Below is a '''list of the largest [[exoplanet]]s''' so far discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. ...
    255 KB (33,949 words) - 15:38, 2 March 2025
  • ...sity]] is very low: {{val|7e-30|u=g/cm3}} ({{val|6e-10|u=J/m<sup>3</sup>}} in [[mass-energy]]), much less than the density of ordinary matter or dark mat ...gy#Evidence of existence|several independent lines of evidence]] have been discovered that support the existence of dark energy. ...
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  • ...metry had appeared throughout history, including the work of [[Desargues]] in the 17th century, all the way back to the implicit use of [[spherical geome ...em|Wiles's proof]] of [[Fermat's Last Theorem]], a problem that was stated in terms of [[elementary arithmetic]], and remained unsolved for several centu ...
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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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  • {{Short description|List of definitions of terms and concepts commonly used in aerospace engineering}} ...or (in [[broadcast engineering]]) [[height above average terrain]] (HAAT). In other words, these expressions (AGL, AMSL, HAAT) indicate where the "zero l ...
    195 KB (28,602 words) - 22:16, 23 October 2024
  • ...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.}} ...
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