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  • Thumbnail for Chronology of the universe
    The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology. Research published in 2015 estimates the...
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    Falcon 1 was a small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. On 28 September 2008, Falcon...
    54 KB (5,181 words) - 11:47, 9 July 2024
  • International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a United States regulatory agency to restrict and control the export of defense and military technologies...
    78 KB (8,648 words) - 14:01, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
    The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) is an intergovernmental organization charged with overseeing the public service obligations...
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  • Thumbnail for Man in the Moon
    In many cultures, several pareidolic images of a human face, head or body are recognized in the disc of the full moon; they are generally known as the...
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  • During NASA's Space Shuttle program, several missions were canceled. Many were canceled as a result of the Challenger and the Columbia disasters or due...
    55 KB (1,206 words) - 01:22, 1 January 2024
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    IRC +10420, also known as V1302 Aquilae, is a yellow hypergiant star located in the constellation of Aquila at a distance of 4-6 kiloparsecs of the Sun...
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  • Thumbnail for Lambda Sagittarii
    Lambda Sagittarii (Latinized from λ Sagittarii), formally named Kaus Borealis /ˈkɔːs bɒriˈælɪs/, is a star in the southern constellation of Sagittarius...
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  • The naming of moons has been the responsibility of the International Astronomical Union's committee for Planetary System Nomenclature since 1973. That...
    66 KB (3,643 words) - 22:54, 10 May 2024
  • The standard solar model (SSM) is a mathematical treatment of the Sun as a spherical ball of gas (in varying states of ionisation, with the hydrogen in...
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  • Thumbnail for Astrogeology Research Program
    The Astrogeology Science Center is the entity within the United States Geological Survey concerned with the study of planetary geology and planetary cartography...
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  • Lyndsay Fletcher (born 1968) FRSE is a Scottish astrophysicist at the University of Glasgow who specialises in solar flares. Fletcher attended Bellahouston...
    11 KB (917 words) - 01:55, 19 June 2023