Seen in motion, this is at once a powerful skeleton clock and a curious astronomical one, a gift to anyone for whom a modern clock can do so much more than just tell the time.
And this could play a crucial role in evaluating the still-controversial evidence for the existence of life on Mars a planet that, in astronomical terms, is a mere stone's throw away.
The drop-out rates have also divided lecturers and university chiefs, with the Association of University Teachers describing the highest drop-out rates as "astronomical" and a waste of public funds.
He has been cataloguing possible candidates from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a collaboration between America, Britain and the Netherlands that conducted the first space-based survey of the entire sky at infra-red wavelengths and located hundreds of thousands of sources.
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John Herschel, son of the discoverer of Uranus and a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society, argued that it would have been a waste of a Universe if God had only created one place where there were people He loved.
This gave them a literally astronomical number of nomadic planets in the Milky Way.
Candidates are desperate to attract private funds given the astronomical cost of running a campaign.
These regularly ticking astronomical radio sources caused a sensation when they were discovered in 1967.
The consumer demand is astronomical, and as a result, we see escalating media rights deals which allow schools to afford more expensive coaching staffs.
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First Byurakan Survey (FBS or Markarian survey, Armenia) , containing the records of a unique astronomical survey carried out by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) from 1965-1980.
The other smart thing they did was team up with a company who would help reach astronomical growth numbers, Customer Hook who developed a strategic plan that would incorporate and integrate email marketing, SEO, PR, eCommerce and social media.
The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical significance is still being explored.
Today, thanks to radar and interplanetary spacecraft, the astronomical unit is known with a precision of one part in 50 billion.
The heat from the friction of its descent into the denser air can ignite the dust and debris in a display of astronomical fireworks.
Another solution, that championed by Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, would be to give Pluto a sort of astronomical dual citizenship.
Profit from property projects is not astronomical, but we can make a reasonable profit.
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It was the same today in Prague, where the International Astronomical Union held its vote in a large auditorium.
But the tradition of astronomical data-mining goes back a long way.
The real stars of the show weren't the multinational corporations, but rather the startups that couldn't necessarily afford the astronomical fees required to set up a booth at a show like this.
The researchers' calculations place the dust in a ring 2.5 astronomical units from Zeta Lep.
It is celebrated on 21 March every year, a date originally determined by astronomical calculations.
Professor Roy was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society.
All this adds up to a giant pushback against the astronomical drug prices that are becoming commonplace.
With its low gravity and lack of atmosphere, the moon would be a splendid place for an astronomical observatory.
What happens is pure planning roulette, a free-for-all, ad hoc gamble on the future where real estate reigns with a divine right established by astronomical values.
They could understand an astronomical problem but the very idea of a mechanical timekeeper that was so good was just too good to be true - they couldn't accept it.
It is a remarkably stable platform for astronomical observatories.
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College football television rights agreements have included astronomical terms as of late, and a recent deal allows ESPN to broadcast the upcoming college football national championship system (including a playoff) through 2026.
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The new object, whose existence was announced on January 10th at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, in Seattle, is causing excitement because it is the smallest extrasolar planet yet discovered.
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