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    Science On a Sphere (SOS) is a spherical projection system created by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It displays...
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    A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The concept is a thought experiment...
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  • Sphere is a 1998 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed and produced by Barry Levinson, adapted by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Dustin...
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    In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. The spheres considered are usually all of identical...
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  • Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. It was adapted into the film Sphere in 1998...
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    and a screening of a film Rang Bahari Prajapati on the life cycle of the butterfly. Science On a Sphere. A spherical projection system created by NOAA providing...
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    be accomplished by feeding out a string or cable instead. The largest existing Hoberman sphere is in the AHHAA Science Center in Tartu, Estonia. Fully...
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    sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical...
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    a bounding sphere, enclosing sphere or enclosing ball for that set is a d {\displaystyle d} -dimensional solid sphere containing all of these objects...
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    relative to one another, it was argued that they must be on the surface of a single starry sphere. In modern thought, the orbits of the planets are viewed...
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    In mathematics, a hypersphere, 3-sphere, or glome is a 4-dimensional analogue of a sphere, and is the 3-dimensional n-sphere. In 4-dimensional Euclidean...
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    Earth's four spheres: the biosphere, hydrosphere/cryosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere (or lithosphere). Earth science can be considered to be a branch of...
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    In mathematics, an n-sphere or hypersphere is an ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠-dimensional generalization of the ⁠ 1 {\displaystyle 1} ⁠-dimensional circle and...
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    Satellite (SPHERES) are a series of miniaturized satellites developed by MIT's Space Systems Laboratory for NASA and US Military, to be used as a low-risk...
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    In geometry, a circumscribed sphere of a polyhedron is a sphere that contains the polyhedron and touches each of the polyhedron's vertices. The word circumsphere...
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  • Thumbnail for Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
    Revealed centers around a "Science on a Sphere" holographic projection globe, and has presentations about planetary science, space exploration, and movies...
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    campus, less than a mile uphill from the University's Botanical Garden. 1.5km 1mile 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    Science on a Sphere – interactive globe...
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    the celestial sphere, which may be centered on Earth or the observer. If centered on the observer, half of the sphere would resemble a hemispherical screen...
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    achievements of women in science have been attributed to the defiance of their traditional role as labourers within the domestic sphere. Learned societies for...
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    international relations, a sphere of influence (SOI) is a spatial region or concept division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic...
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  • Thumbnail for Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
    Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Japanese: 大東亞共榮圈, Hepburn: Dai Tōa Kyōeiken), also known as the GEACPS, was a pan-Asian union that the Empire...
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    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...
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    exhibit and the NOAA Science on a Sphere exhibit. The grand re-opening of the renamed South Florida Science Center and Aquarium occurred on June 6, 2013. In...
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    Hairy ball theorem (category Spheres)
    on even-dimensional n-spheres. For the ordinary sphere, or 2‑sphere, if f is a continuous function that assigns a vector in ℝ3 to every point p on a sphere...
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    are characterized as "spheres", coinciding with the shape of the planet. The four spheres (for which most of the other spheres are a subtype of) are the...
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  • In algebraic topology, a homology sphere is an n-manifold X having the homology groups of an n-sphere, for some integer n ≥ 1 {\displaystyle n\geq 1} ...
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    features a revolutionary new piece of technology designed by NOAA called Science on a Sphere. Live presentations on Earth and space are offered daily on the...
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  • system Science On a Sphere, a display system Secure Our Smartphones, New York State and San Francisco initiative Sensor Observation Service, a standardized...
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  • Gallery Life Science Gallery Innovation Hub Gallery Fun Mirrors Gallery India in Space Gallery Ramanujan Math Gallery Science on a Sphere 3D Science Theatre...
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  • Discovery Museum and Planetarium (category Science museums in Connecticut)
    Challenger Learning Center, Science on a Sphere and a variety of permanent and traveling exhibits. The Discovery Science Center was founded in 1958 and...
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