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11Charles Brooke (surgeon) — Charles Brooke FRS (1804–1879) was an English surgeon and inventor. Contents 1 Surgical career 2 Inventions 3 Death 4 Automatic registration of instruments by photography …
12Coronal mass ejection — A coronal mass ejection in time lapse imagery obtained with the LASCO instrument. The Sun (center) is obscured by the coronagraph s mask. (September 30 – October 1, 2001) A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a massive burst of solar wind, other light …
13X-ray astronomy — X rays start at 0.008 nm and extend across the electromagnetic spectrum to 8 nm, over which the Earth s atmosphere is opaque. X ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X ray observation and detection… …
14Magnetometer — A magnetometer is a measuring instrument used to measure the strength or direction of a magnetic field either produced in the laboratory or existing in nature. Some countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia classify the more sensitive… …
15Babcock , Horace Welcome — (1912–) American astronomer Babcock was born in Pasadena, California, the son of Harold Delos Babcock , a distinguished American astronomer who spent a lifetime observing at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Horace Babcock graduated in 1934 from the… …
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