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摘要: Since Cassini's approach to Saturn began in February 2004, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) has returned a wealth of information on the bodies in the Saturn system. This presentation will highlight the major discoveries made by the ISS at Saturn thus far, and will describe in brief...
While none of these observations ever amounted to true discoveries, this weekend gives observers and astrophotographers a unique chance to “mimic” a spurious discovery that has dotted astronomical lore: a visual “pseudo-moon” for the planet Mercury. This “moon illusion” will occur on February...
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Allowing your perspective to shift from a big-plan-specific vision to a fluid-discovery-process is an important part of Management 3.0. Seeing business growth as a series of discrete discoveries instead of an overreaching plan wires your brain for flexibility. This, in turn, will enhance your ...
Fast radio burst discoveries The Parkes Observatory in Australia made the first detection of an FRB as it blasted out of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, in 2001. However, this event would not be discovered until 2007, when astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer and col...
Each layer has been created by the expulsion of cosmic matter from the central dying star. Additional resources For more information about nebulae, check out "The Hubble Legacy: 30 Years of Discoveries and Image", by Jim Bell and "Planetary Nebulae and How to Observe Them (Astronomers' ...
the first success of the Space Shuttle Program. Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.3 million universe observations. Then, NASA and SpaceX, a private aerospace company, teamed up to complete the first commercial resupply for the crew living on the ISS ...
has been in such papers, and there is a dearth of books on the latest discoveries and theories about these complex, enigmatic systems. The books I'd bought previously date back to the 80s and early 90s, prior to many of the discoveries made possible by space-based and next-gen ground ...