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- The cosmic distance ladder (also known as the extragalactic distance scale) is the succession of methods by which astronomers determine the distances to...54 KB (7,874 words) - 13:31, 20 October 2024
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構, Kokuritsu-kenkyū-kaihatsu-hōjin Uchū Kōkū Kenkyū Kaihatsu Kikō, lit. 'National Research...68 KB (7,582 words) - 20:07, 23 October 2024
- Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine...35 KB (3,067 words) - 14:03, 22 October 2024
- The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring...143 KB (15,464 words) - 20:37, 29 October 2024
- The Hill sphere is a common model for the calculation of a gravitational sphere of influence. It is the most commonly used model to calculate the spatial...26 KB (2,917 words) - 08:03, 17 October 2024
- The history of astronomy focuses on the contributions civilizations have made to further their understanding of the universe beyond earth's atmosphere...84 KB (10,297 words) - 09:42, 26 October 2024
- Falcon 1 was a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. On 28 September 2008...54 KB (5,181 words) - 23:12, 6 October 2024
- Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator...39 KB (5,086 words) - 02:20, 15 June 2024
- Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus SE. Formed in 2014 in the restructuring of European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS), Airbus SE comprises...64 KB (5,952 words) - 18:51, 16 October 2024
- Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface...43 KB (4,800 words) - 17:13, 25 October 2024
- P-type (primitive-type) asteroids have low albedo and a featureless reddish spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic-rich...6 KB (709 words) - 07:51, 23 October 2024
- The International Space Station (ISS) Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is a life support system that provides or controls atmospheric...21 KB (2,374 words) - 08:59, 4 October 2024
- Hakuto (ハクト) or formerly White Label Space (ホワイトレーベルスペース) was a team formed in early 2008 by a group of experienced space professionals inspired by the...16 KB (1,594 words) - 22:18, 20 September 2024
- Below is a list of the largest known nebulae so far discovered, ordered by actual diameter. This list is prone to change because of inconsistencies between...28 KB (1,713 words) - 14:10, 6 October 2024
- Konkoly Observatory (Hungarian: HUN-REN Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet; obs. code: 053) is an...23 KB (2,547 words) - 07:20, 31 May 2024
- Maksim Viktorovich Surayev (Russian: Максим Викторович Сураев, born 24 May 1972) is a Russian politician and retired cosmonaut. He served in the State...12 KB (1,120 words) - 10:52, 27 October 2024
- A rogue black hole (also termed a free-floating, nomad, orphan, unbound or wandering black hole) is an interstellar or intergalactic black hole. Objects...7 KB (346 words) - 22:26, 29 October 2024
- Jack Horkheimer (born Foley Arthur Horkheimer; June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010) was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. He was...20 KB (1,851 words) - 04:42, 6 May 2024
- Polarization is an important phenomenon in astronomy. The polarization of starlight was first observed by the astronomers William Hiltner and John S. Hall...6 KB (712 words) - 09:07, 28 October 2024
- In 1850, Léon Foucault used a rotating mirror to perform a differential measurement of the speed of light in water versus its speed in air. In 1862, he...26 KB (2,985 words) - 21:51, 29 August 2023