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  • Thumbnail for NGC 126
    NGC 126 is a lenticular galaxy that was discovered on November 4, 1850, by Bindon Stoney, the very same day he discovered NGC 127 and NGC 130. Distance...
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  • Thumbnail for Space vehicle
    A space vehicle is the combination of a spacecraft and its launch vehicle which carries it into space. The earliest space vehicles were expendable launch...
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  • Venera 4V-2 (Russian: Венера 4В-2) was a series of two identical spacecraft sent to Venus by the Soviet Union, consisting of Venera 15 and Venera 16. Both...
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  • Thumbnail for Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science
    The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science (SAO RAS; Russian: Специальная Астрофизическая Обсерватория) is an astronomical...
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  • MOA-2008-BLG-310L is a 23rd magnitude star located at least 20000 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. This star has mass 0.67 solar masses...
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  • Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Беля́вский; December 7, 1883 (Julian calendar: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet/Russian...
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  • Thumbnail for TAMA 300
    TAMA 300 is a gravitational wave detector located at the Mitaka campus of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is a project of the gravitational...
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  • The Germanium Detector Array (or GERDA) experiment was searching for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in Ge-76 at the underground Laboratori Nazionali...
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  • Tsikada (Russian: Цикада meaning cicada), was a Soviet satellite navigation system including ten Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. It transmits the same...
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  • A torsion-bar antenna (or TOBA) is a novel scheme for a gravitational wave detector, proposed by M. Ando, et al. in 2010. The proposed design is composed...
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  • Thumbnail for 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope
    The 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope is a Department of Defense telescope at Haleakala Observatory. The telescope is part of the Maui Space...
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  • Thumbnail for Materials Science Laboratory
    The Materials Science Laboratory (MSL) of the European Space Agency is a payload on board the International Space Station for materials science experiments...
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  • Thumbnail for TROPI
    TROPI, or "Analysis of a Novel Sensory Mechanism in Root Phototropism", is an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to investigate the growth...
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  • The NIXT, or Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope, was a sounding rocket payload flown in the 1990s by Professor Leon Golub of the Smithsonian Astrophysical...
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  • A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight. Lists of spacecraft List...
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  • Mary Lea Heger (July 13, 1897 – July 13, 1983, later Mary Lea Shane) was an American astronomer who made important discoveries on the interstellar medium...
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  • Thumbnail for Human Research Facility Holter Monitor
    The Human Research Facility Holter Monitor (Holter) is a battery-powered, noninvasive electrocardiogram (ECG) device that accurately measures the heart...
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