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• Space Station
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  Space exploration

  Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. While the observation of objects in space—known as astronomy—pre-dates ... > more
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
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  Mir

  Mir was a highly successful Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station. It was humanity's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space. Through a number of collaborations, it was ... > more
• Solar System
  Uranus
  Moon
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Astronomy
   
  

  Uranus' natural satellites

  Uranus has 27 known moons. The first two moons (Titania and Oberon) were discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1787. Two more moons (Ariel and Umbriel) were discovered by William Lassell in ... > more
• Sun
  Black Holes
  Moon
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar Flare
  Pluto
   
  

  Precession

  Precession refers to a change in the direction of the axis of a rotating object. In certain contexts, "precession" may refer to the precession that the Earth experiences, the effects of this type of ... > more
• Sun
  Solar Flare
  Moon
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Jupiter
   
  

  Eclipse

  An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. The term is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow ... > more
• Northern Lights
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Space Station
  NASA
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  Ion thruster

  An ion thruster (or ion drive), one of several types of spacecraft propulsion, uses beams of ions - electrically charged atoms or molecules - for propulsion. The precise method for accelerating the ... > more
• Space Station
  NASA
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  Space suit

  A space suit is a complex system of garments and equipment and environmental systems designed to keep a person alive and comfortable in the harsh environment of outer ... > more
• Space Probes
  Aviation
  Vehicles
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
  Sports Science
   
  

  Rocket

  The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. There are many ... > more
• Mars
  Solar System
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
   
  

  Deimos (moon)

  Deimos is probably an asteroid that was perturbed by Jupiter into an orbit that allowed it to be captured by Mars, though this hypothesis is still in some dispute. Like most bodies of its size, ... > more
• Astrophysics
  Optics
  Physics
  Chemistry
  Sports Science
  Graphene
   
  

  Spectroscopy

  Spectroscopy is the study of spectra, that is, the dependence of physical quantities on frequency. Spectroscopy is often used in physical and analytical chemistry for the identification of ... > more

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