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  • 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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  • Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an...
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    Daytime as observed on Earth is the period of the day during which a given location experiences natural illumination from direct sunlight. Daytime occurs...
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  • HTV-X1 is the first flight and the technical demonstration mission of HTV-X, an uncrewed expendable cargo spacecraft. As of December 2023[update], it is...
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  • During the early years of spaceflight only nation states had the resources to develop and fly spacecraft. Both the U.S. space program and Soviet space...
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    The Russian space station Mir ended its mission on 23 March 2001, when it was brought out of its orbit, entered the atmosphere and was destroyed. Major...
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    Freeman Dyson proposed that trans-Neptunian objects, rather than planets, are the major potential habitat of life in space.[citation needed] Several hundred...
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    The Face on Moon South Pole is a region on the Moon (81.9° south latitude and 39.27° east longitude) that was detected automatically in an image from the...
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  • HR 2096, also known as HD 40325 is a double star in the constellation Auriga. It is composed of two ageing orange giants of spectral types K0III and K2III...
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    The Extreme-ultraviolet Stellar Characterization for Atmospheric Physics and Evolution (ESCAPE) mission aims to find environments beyond Earth's solar...
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  • Ekspress-A1 (Russian: Экспрeсс-А1 meaning Express-A1), also designated Ekspress-6A No.1, is a Russian communications satellite which is operated by Russian...
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    Asgard is the second largest multi-ringed basin (large impact crater) on Jupiter's moon Callisto. It is named after Asgard, the realm of the gods in Norse...
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    40°46′03″N 111°54′11″W / 40.76750°N 111.90306°W / 40.76750; -111.90306 The Clark Planetarium is a planetarium and science museum situated within The...
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  • Dorsum Cloos is a wrinkle-ridge at 1°00′N 91°00′E / 1.0°N 91.0°E / 1.0; 91.0 in Mare Smythii on the Moon. It is 103 km long and was named after German...
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    Michaël Gillon (born 1974) is a Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist. His research focuses on exoplanets and he conducts his research at the University...
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  • In telecommunication, the term bias distortion has the following meanings: Signal distortion resulting from a shift in the bias. In digital signaling,...
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    The Istanbul University Observatory (Turkish: İstanbul Üniversitesi Gözlemevi) is a ground-based astronomical observatory operated by the Astronomy and...
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