Messier 62 (redirect from Flickering Globular)
Messier 62 or M62, also known as NGC 6266 or the Flickering Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of stars in the south of the equatorial constellation...
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Twinkling (redirect from Scintillation (astronomy))
dictionary. Adaptive optics Interplanetary scintillation Observational astronomy Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je,...
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Gamma-ray astronomy is a subfield of astronomy where scientists observe and study celestial objects and phenomena in outer space which emit cosmic electromagnetic...
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Aurora (redirect from Aurora (astronomy))
"Far-ultraviolet aurora identified at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko". Nature Astronomy. 4 (11): 1084–1091. Bibcode:2020NatAs...4.1084G. doi:10.1038/s41550-020-1171-7...
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clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive...
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Kiril; Manousakis, Antonios; Miszalski, Brent (2016). "Active phases and flickering of a symbiotic recurrent nova T CrB". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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Inuit astronomy is centered around the Qilak, the Inuit name for the celestial sphere and the home for souls of departed people. Inuit beliefs about astronomy...
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Purkinje effect (redirect from Flicker-induced hallucination)
photopic vision, about 555 nanometres (2.19×10−5 in) (green). In visual astronomy, the Purkinje shift can affect visual estimates of variable stars when...
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(2014-09-23). "The Three-Body Problem: "The Universe Flickers"". Tor.com. Retrieved 2023-01-23. "Astronomy in your wallet - NCCR PlanetS". nccr-planets.ch...
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Disrupted planet (category Unsolved problems in astronomy)
luminosity of the parent star, as may have been responsible for the oddly flickering light curves associated with the starlight observed from certain variable...
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Fast radio burst (redirect from Perytons (astronomy))
In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond, for an ultra-fast radio burst...
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In X-ray astronomy, quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) is the manner in which the X-ray light from an astronomical object flickers about certain frequencies...
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2009. "Interview: A conversation with actor and writer Paul Darrow". Flickering Myth. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2019. "Hostile Waters". Eurogamer...
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Pink noise (section In gravitational wave astronomy)
"Noise". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2024-02-06. Press, W. H. (1978). "Flicker noises in astronomy and elsewhere". Comments in Astrophysics. 7 (4): 103–119. Bibcode:1978ComAp...
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Guinness Book of Astronomy. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-76-2 – via archive.org. Moore, Patrick (1979). The Guinness Book of Astronomy. Guinness...
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wavelength into visible light – the universe beyond the night sky is flickering the countdown. This drives Wang Miao to further despair until detective...
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Guide star (category Observational astronomy)
In astronomy, a guide star is a reference star used to accurately maintain the tracking by a telescope of a celestial body, whose apparent motion through...
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Neutrino detector (category Neutrino astronomy)
from cosmic rays and other background radiation. The field of neutrino astronomy is still very much in its infancy – the only confirmed extraterrestrial...
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successor for AstroSat. After the success of the satellite-borne Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE), which was launched in 1996, the Indian Space Research...
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(short form from "End of the sword" 劍先 (C: jiàn xiān J: ken saki)), "Flickering light" 搖光 (C: yáoguāng J: yōkō), or again "Star of military defeat" 破軍星...
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165 (number) (section In astronomy)
United States Navy Haskell-class attack transport during World War II USS Flicker (IX-165) was a United States Navy minesweeper during World War II USS Georgetown (AG-165)...
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of Tokyo" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-05-12. Yirka, Bob; Phys.org. "Flickering black hole at center of IC 310 shaking up ideas on how jets form". phys...
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Originally designed and built by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, it was first opened by Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands in 2010, and...
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Black hole (category Concepts in astronomy)
Archived from the original on 30 November 2017. Crass, Institute of Astronomy – Design by D.R. Wilkins and S.J. "Light escaping from black holes". www...
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witness the northern lights flickering above an empty golf course near their home. Later, Feynman found comfort in an astronomy book given to her by her...
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Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by...
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Crab (unit) (category Units of measurement in astronomy)
NASA. 1995-05-04. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-01-22. the 'crab' was commonly used in the early days of X-ray astronomy...
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natural world and wrote texts on the mathematical sciences of optics, astronomy and geometry. He affirmed that experiments should be used in order to...
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impact on Jupiter". Astronomy Magazine online. Retrieved 4 June 2010. Bakich, Michael (2010-06-04). "Another impact on Jupiter". Astronomy Magazine online...
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v=DsBACIstuTI Brady Haran#Sixty Symbols Adam, David (August 1, 2001). "Flickering light raises possibility of changing 'constant'". Nature. 412 (6849):...
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