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Spectroscopic observations in the 1900s gave the first clues about Venus» rotation.

Archive centers may wish to utilize this system to quantify classes of formerly arbitrary spectral classification strings found in classification catalogs corresponding to datasets of pointed spectroscopic observations in their holdings.

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But telescopic and spectroscopic observation, and increasingly exact calculations, are transforming this comfortable spectacle into a vision that is very much more unsettling, one which in all probability will profoundly affect our moral outlook and religious beliefs when it has passed from the minds of a few initiates into the mass - consciousness of Mankind as a whole: immensities of distance and size, huge extremes of temperature, torrents of energy...

«Other spectroscopic instruments have flown in space before but none have had this programmable multi-object capability that enables observation of up to 100 objects simultaneously, which means much more scientific investigating can get done in less time.

«Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf: Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar system.»

In 2010, Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Charlie Conroy of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used spectroscopic observations to discover that eight massive elliptical galaxies had given birth to an even greater proportion of small stars than the Milky Way diIn 2010, Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Charlie Conroy of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used spectroscopic observations to discover that eight massive elliptical galaxies had given birth to an even greater proportion of small stars than the Milky Way diin Cambridge, Massachusetts, used spectroscopic observations to discover that eight massive elliptical galaxies had given birth to an even greater proportion of small stars than the Milky Way did.

The appearance of the plumes in this graphic is based on spectroscopic observations of oxygen and hydrogen in the auroral emissions.

The latter would enable the most detailed possible analysis, providing a crucial link with remote spectroscopic observations and the compositions of meteorites in order to develop a much wider understanding of these small bodies, their properties, and what they can tell us about the evolution of the solar system.

Spectroscopic observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope in Chile confirmed the four candidates to be massive clusters.

In order to identify false positives and confirm transiting exoplanets, we have assembled a follow - up network (KELT - FUN) to conduct imaging with higher spatial resolution, cadence, and photometric precision than the KELT telescopes, as well as spectroscopic observations of the candidate host stars.

A team of astronomers, led by Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University, used the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to perform a spectroscopic study of the planet's atmosphere in the near - infrared and conducted the observation as the planet passed behind its parent star.

«We are looking at several cubic miles of lava in rapidly emplaced flows,» said Davies, who has developed models to predict the volume of magma erupted based on spectroscopic observations.

I have used the theory to interpret spectroscopic observations and interactions of relevance in colloid science.

The spectroscopic, imaging and polarimetric observations that SPICA will b... ▽ More The SPICA mid and far - infrared telescope will address fundamental issues in our understanding of star formation and ISM physics in galaxies.

Potential topics include: (1) Advanced numerical modelling of magnetic flux tubes / loops in the low solar atmosphere (2) Forward modelling of spectroscopic and narrowband EUV observations of the low solar atmosphere, (3) Solar Rotational Tomography of EUV and / or coronagraph coronal observations, (4) Automated detection and prediction of coronal mass ejections, (5) Analysis of solar wind turbulence observations by in situ spacecraft, (6) Eclipse instrumentation, observations and data analysis.

«Spectroscopic observations of the white dwarf allowed us to measure the abundances of the rocky material as it is being accreted and filtered through the star's atmosphere in real time,» Melis said.

The spectroscopic, imaging and polarimetric observations that SPICA will be able to collect will help in clarifying the complex physical mechanisms which underlie the baryon cycle of galaxies.

With AKARI, we performed near - infrared (2.5 - 4.5 um) spectroscopic observations of 34 regions in M 82 including its northern and southern halos.

Current research in the Hida Observatory of Kyoto University has emphasis on the followings; (a) Study of solar MHD processes with spectroscopic and spectro - polarimetric observations using the 60 cm Domeless Solar Vacuum Tower Telescope (DST) combining with data from space solar missions (such as Hinode).

[23] The 1800s saw spectroscopic studies of the Sun advance, and Joseph von Fraunhofer made the first observations of absorption lines in the spectrum, the strongest of which are still often referred to as Fraunhofer lines.

Struve's own research involved spectroscopic observations of stars and gas in the Milky Way.