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  2. Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Observations of Foucault pendulums, popular in science museums around the world, demonstrate both that the world is spherical and that it rotates (not that the stars are rotating around it). The mathematics of navigation using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites assumes that they are moving in known orbits around an approximately ...

  3. Galaxy Zoo - Wikipedia

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    Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies.It is an example of citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research.

  4. Umbilical point - Wikipedia

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    The elliptical umbilics and hyperbolic umbilics have distinctly different focal surfaces. A ridge on the surface corresponds to a cuspidal edges so each sheet of the elliptical focal surface will have three cuspidal edges which come together at the umbilic focus and then switch to the other sheet. For a hyperbolic umbilic there is a single ...

  5. Event Horizon Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes.The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) stations around Earth, which form a combined array with an angular resolution sufficient to observe objects the size of a supermassive black hole's event horizon.

  6. Elliptical galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The giant elliptical galaxy ESO 325-4. An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. They are one of the three main classes of galaxy described by Edwin Hubble in his Hubble sequence and 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae, [1] along with spiral and lenticular galaxies.

  7. Messier 87 - Wikipedia

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    There is a preponderance of elliptical and S0 galaxies around M87. [129] A chain of elliptical galaxies roughly aligns with the jet. [129] In terms of mass, M87 is likely to be the largest, and coupled with centrality appears to be moving very little relative to the cluster as a whole. [7] It is defined in one study as the cluster center.

  8. This House Has a Secret Connection to Zsa Zsa Gabor - AOL

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    Overhead is a series of Gino Sarfatti elliptical ceiling lights that relate to the custom-milled walnut paneling. Against the wall is a Tako two-drawer console by Filippo Pisan from De Castelli.

  9. Newton's cannonball - Wikipedia

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    At intermediate speeds, it will revolve around Earth along an elliptical orbit (C, D). Beyond the escape velocity , it will leave the Earth without returning (E). Newton's cannonball was a thought experiment Isaac Newton used to hypothesize that the force of gravity was universal, and it was the key force for planetary motion .