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    Eugen Goldstein

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    University of Breslau in Poland for several years which also happens to be the country he was born in. He later went to work at the Berlin Observatory as a physicist in 1878‚ he received his doctorate in the year 1881. He finally when on to establishing his own laboratory. Shortly before his death in 1930‚ he became head of the astrophysical section in the Potsdam Observatory in Potsdam Germany. Eugen was not the first to study or find light within the glass tube. A man named Michael Faraday was among the

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    City of San Jose

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    farming community. The unique landscape of San Jose not only transformed it into farming society ‚ it has brought the first mountaintop observatory to San Jose.(Lick History) The eye discerns a white spec – The dome of the famous Lick Observatory is being build on 4200-foot summit of Mount Hamilton which is east of San Jose in year of 1888.(Lick Observatory) “A fine wagon road leads up Mount Hamilton ‚revealing beautiful vistas at

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    Volcanic Hazards

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    Volcano Observatory was recognized shortly after the first eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano on July 18th 1995. The stations are located around the volcano and detect the ground movements caused by local earthquakes and dome collapses. Occasionally‚ large earthquakes outside Montserrat are also recorded. The seismic signals are monitored 24 hours a day at the Observatory. The second eruption on 25 June 1997 affected Montserrat in a number of ways‚ even though the volcano observatory had been

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    Earthshine

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    sunlight it reflects‚ is currently 0.297‚ with a margin of error of 0.005. "Earth’s climate is driven by the net sunlight that it absorbs‚" says Philip R. Goode‚ leader of the New Jersey Institute of Technology team‚ Director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory‚ and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at NJIT. "We have found surprisingly large--up to 20 percent--seasonal variations in Earth’s reflectance. Further‚ we have found a hint of a 2.5-percent decrease in Earth’s albedo over the past five years

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    light pollution

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    result is sky glow. Particles in the atmosphere are responsible for light pollution by increasing the amount of light scatter. Effects Light pollution is a major concern for observatories as lights from urban areas compete with lights from stars and planets‚ reducing visibility of the objects that observatories study. This type of pollution also affects wildlife and plants. Night lights disorient hatching sea turtles‚ migrating birds and nocturnal animals. Lights attract insects‚ which may

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    — RINT - Task 2: SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS‚ THEORIES‚ & INQUIRY — Harrison Rusinyak — Scientific Concepts or Phenomenon — Solar System — The Solar System in past concepts. — Earth was thought to be the center of the Universe. — The stars and planets revolved around the Earth. — The Earth was thought of as flat. — No one experimented to see how far they can see. — The Solar System current concepts. — The planets revolve around the sun

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    Chichen Itza

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    is considered one of the most important part of the Maya culture. Some of the buildings that were built are called: The Red House ‚ the House of the Deer‚ the Nunnery and its Annex‚ the Church‚ the Akab Dzib‚ the Temple of the Three Lintels‚ the Observatory‚ Kukulcan’s Pyramid‚ the Temple of Warriors‚ The Ball Court‚ The Group of the Thousand Columns‚ and the House of Phalli. Is it still standing? Chichen Itza is the largest‚ most complete set of ruins with easy striking distance from Cancun and

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    translation of these manuscripts. He organized at Baghdad a sort of scientific academy called the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-hilkma)‚ which included a library and an observatory. This was  the most ambitious undertaking of its kind since the foundation of the Alexandrian Museum (q. v. first half of third century B. C.). He built another observatory on the plain of Tadmor (Palmyra). The inclination of the ecliptic was found by his astronomers to equal 23o 33 ’ and tables of the planetary motions were constructed

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    with the Keck Observatory‚ located at the top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii. (Howell) Kepler can still find exoplanets‚ just in a smaller field of view. Kepler uses a method called the transient method‚ Kepler watches a star until there is a dip in the brightness‚ this is a tell-tell sign that a planet just passed in front of the star. This method produces a lot of false positives‚ so the facts must be checked by another method. (Kepler Spacecraft)This is where the Keck Observatory plays a big part

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    decade has witnessed an unprecedented stream of new observational information on star formation on all scales‚ thanks in no small part to new facilities such as the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)‚ the Spitzer Space Telescope‚ the Herschel Space Observatory‚ the introduction of powerful new instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)‚ and a host of groundbased optical‚ infrared‚ submillimeter‚ and radio telescopes. These new observations are providing a detailed reconstruction of the key evolutionary

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