The Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt) was an Italian instrument planned for launch to the International Space Station in for a planned 2-year mission...

John (December 1868). "On the Blue Colour of the Sky, the Polarization of Skylight, and on the Polarization of Light by Cloudy Matter Generally". Proceedings...

Chandrasekhar polarization Bagnulo, S. (2003). "Observations of magnetic Ap stars at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory: From broadband linear polarization measurements...

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variation in polarization. The polarisation at each direction in the sky has an orientation described in terms of E-mode and B-mode polarization. The E-mode...

constructed. One of the primary goals of the Simons Observatory are polarization maps of the sky with an order of magnitude better sensitivity than the Planck...

originally consisted of two independent modules, EXPOSE and Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt). EXPOSE was a facility holding multiple exobiology experiments...

Photographs helped "to derive coronal brightness and polarization, along with sky brightness and polarization". Several missions were made in 1960s. Three NC-135...

The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and...

Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (US) in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra...

detected fluctuations in the polarization of the microwave background obtaining the first detailed E-mode polarization spectrum providing evidence that...

observatory was launched in May 2009 and reached the Earth/Sun L2 point by July 2009. By February 2010, it had successfully started a second all-sky survey...

A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational...

Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has pointed to lower gamma-ray burst polarization. But the authors have also stated that those...

vertical polarization; if turned on its side the same antenna's polarization will be horizontal. Reflections generally affect polarization. Radio waves...

POLARBEAR (POLARization of the Background Radiation) is a cosmic microwave background polarization experiment located in the Atacama Desert of northern...

long-term optical sky surveys: OGLE and ASAS. Both these surveys take sky images using dedicated telescopes located at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Scientific staff...

has produced the highest resolution all-sky map to-date of both the temperature anisotropies and polarization signals. Current scientific goals for CMB...

the orientation of the incoming electromagnetic waves (polarization) at every point on the sky with an angular resolution of 0.73 degrees. The angular...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational...

Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It hosts Murriyang...

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doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2013.12.004. Garstang, R. (1989). "Night-Sky Brightness at Observatories and Sites". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the...

indications of vacuum birefringence from RX J1856.5−3754. A degree of polarization of about 16% was measured from the visible spectrum being large enough...

Radio Observatory, but located in Nevada USA. Its main goal is a sky survey, acting as a radio camera to produce an archive of images of the entire sky visible...

by making precise measurements of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over 65% of the sky at multiple frequencies in the microwave...

Extragalactic Polarization) and the Keck Array are a series of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. They aim to measure the polarization of the CMB;...

Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is the name for a group of astronomical observatories located at an altitude of over 4,800 m (15,700 ft) in the Atacama...

coronagraphs, such as the High Altitude Observatory's Mark IV Coronagraph on top of Mauna Loa, use polarization to distinguish sky brightness from the image of the...

also operates the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST) and one of the largest radio observatory, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture...