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Blue and White. Website. www.cput.ac.za. Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Afrikaans: Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie) is a university in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the only university of technology in the Western Cape province, and is also the largest university in the province, with over 32,000 students.
Move Your Domain Day. Move Your Domain Day, or MoveYourDomainDay, was an annual observance encouraging owners of domain names to transfer their domain registration away from registrars that supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It was first held on 29 December 2011, the idea coming from a post on Reddit as a protest against prominent ...
Opened August 19, 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m 2 ), state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site in the hills of Oakland, California. The museum was formerly an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program [ 2] but is currently no longer an affiliate.
Stardome Observatory & Planetarium is located at 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland 1023, within Maungakiekie One Tree Hill Domain. The 1,000 square metre facility has two telescope domes, (one available for public viewing sessions), a 75 seat planetarium, gallery and exhibition space, a retail shop, outdoor courtyard telescope space, and space for education groups as well as private hire.
Samuel Piepont recommended this location to the government as a prime spot for an observatory following an expedition in the area. Plans to establish a summit shelter were made in 1908. In 1909, the site was utilized by Charles Greeley Abbot , the director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, to conduct spectroscopic observations of ...
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a NASA SMEX astrophysics mission that will launch a soft gamma-ray telescope (0.2-5 MeV) in 2027. [2][3] It is a wide-field compact Compton telescope (CCT) that is uniquely suited to investigate the "MeV gap" (0.1-10 MeV). [4] It provides imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of astrophysical ...
Warner and Swasey Observatory. The Warner and Swasey Observatory is the astronomical observatory of Case Western Reserve University. Named after Worcester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey, who built it at the beginning of the 20th century, it was initially located on Taylor Road in East Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The observatory, which at that time ...
The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and was founded in 1839. With the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, it forms part of the ...