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    The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a future NASA mission to study the heating of the solar corona and the impact of solar eruptions and flares that...
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  • (spacecraft), a 2026 proposed orbiter mission to the planet Uranus Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE), planned NASA heliophysics mission MUSES Program, Mu Space...
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    Mechanisms of Energetic Mass Ejection – eXplorer (MEME-X), Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI), Multi-Slit Solar Explorer (MUSE), Tandem Reconnection and...
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  • in-development Multi-slit Solar Explorer selected by NASA in February 2022. De Pontieu is a member of the American Astronomical Society and its Solar Physics...
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    The Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is an integral field spectrograph installed at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory...
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    (IRIS), also called Explorer 94 and SMEX-12, is a NASA solar observation satellite. The mission was funded through the Small Explorer program to investigate...
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    spacecraft, along with deploying movable parts of the spacecraft such as solar arrays, masts, and booms. By deploying and retracting these parts, a user...
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    High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI, originally High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager or HESSI or Explorer 81) was a NASA solar flare observatory...
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    Explorer 51, also known as AE-C (Atmospheric Explorer-C), was a NASA scientific satellite belonging to the Atmosphere Explorer series launched on 16 December...
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    as many small telescope mirror images, which serves as the input for a multi-slit spectrograph that delivers the data cubes. This approach was advocated...
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    2012. A multi-object spectrograph wide-field camera for the near-infrared (0.97 to 2.41 μm), its special feature is its cryogenic Configurable Slit Unit...
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    disperse light for spectral analysis. Light then passed through an exit slit into photomultiplier tubes that produced pulses of electrons, which were...
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  • been changed to multi-colour. Note: the blood-red drips behind the letters of the title have returned, after having been changed to multi-colour for two...
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    spectropolarimetry, and long slit and multi-object slit-masks. Mounted at Cassegrain focus. WEAVE WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer - a multi-object optical spectrograph...
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    was designed to withstand the high winds prevailing at that location. The slit is narrow. The dome is required to move with the telescope to avoid obstruction...
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  • its own movement through space. The most classic example of this is the "slit-scan" opening of the "stargate" sequence toward the end of Stanley Kubrick's...
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    must be an extended aperture, rather than the traditional narrow entrance slit, in order to allow the entire aberrated HST image from a point source to...
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    low-resolution mode using a prism, an R~1000 multi-object mode, and an R~2700 integral field unit or long-slit spectroscopy mode. Switching of the modes...
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  • the Procedure Control Language (PCL) family, the Orbiting Solar Observatory/atmosphere Explorer (OSO/AE) language family and the Applications Technology...
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  • takes a trip through the "Star Gate" that involves the innovative use of slit-scan photography to create the visual effects. Problems playing this file...
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  • to explore the relationship between light and magnetism and she published her first paper, "The magnetic properties of the violet rays of the solar spectrum"...
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    spectrometer's VIR spectral frames are 256 (spatial) × 432 (spectral), and the slit length is 64 mrad. The mapping spectrometer incorporates two channels, both...
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    Cleoxenus, Democleitus and Polybius. In the modern era, semaphores and wireless solar telegraphs called heliographs were developed, using coded signals to communicate...
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    clients. Mother Seals healed a church member by sacrificing a live chicken, slitting its throat, and tying it to a person's leg for two days. This is a continued...
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    Wright of UC San Diego. Infrared Multi-object Spectrometer (IRMS) allowing close to diffraction-limited imaging and slit spectroscopy over a 2 arc-minute...
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  • and English: chāk derives from the Persian "چاك ćāk, Fissure, cleft, rent, slit, a narrow opening (intentionally left in clothes)." Dyson, Tim (2018), A...
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    Alhazen, Aristotle is also thought to have used camera obscura for observing solar eclipses. The formation of pinhole images is touched upon as a subject in...
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    20cm survey, the team use the Large Binocular Telescope–Multi-Object Double Spectrograph long-slit spectroscopy at two position angles for each galaxy: one...
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  • explain individual phenomena—blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, solar emission spectra—an era called the Old or Older quantum theories. Building...
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    Caracol structure at Chichen Itza was a circular multi-level edifice, with a conical superstructure. It has slit windows that marked the movements of Venus...
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