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2. C/2020 F8 (SWAN) - Wikipedia

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   C/2020 F8 (SWAN), or Comet SWAN, is an Oort cloud comet that was discovered in images taken by the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) camera on March 25, 2020, aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft.

3. Comet SWAN is coming — and it’ll be visible without a telescope

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   C/2020 F8 (SWAN) (or Comet SWAN) is, just now, starting to be visible to viewers under dark skies without the use of binoculars or a telescope. Comet SWAN is coming — and it’ll be visible ...

4. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - Wikipedia

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   Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope , which studies the low coronal structure and activity. Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron experiment ( ERNE Archived 7 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine ), which studies the ion and electron composition of the solar wind.

5. Henrietta Swan Leavitt - Wikipedia

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   Henrietta Swan Leavitt (/ ˈ l ɛ v ɪ t /; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921 [2]) was an American astronomer. [1] Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the scale and understanding of the scale and the nature of the universe. [ 3 ]

6. Equatorial mount - Wikipedia

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   A large German equatorial mount on the Forststernwarte Jena 50cm Cassegrain reflector telescope.. An equatorial mount is a mount for instruments that compensates for Earth's rotation by having one rotational axis, called polar axis, parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation.

7. C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN) - Wikipedia

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   Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN) is a non-periodic comet which appeared in March 2009. March 26, 2009—it was discovered by Korean Dae-am Yi using a simple hand-held Canon 5D camera and 90-mm lens valued at US$249. According to legend, it is the first comet discovered by a Korean in the modern age. [2]

8. Cygnus (constellation) - Wikipedia

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   Cygnus is a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan. [1] Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, and it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross).

9. List of space telescopes - Wikipedia

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   This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, and radio. Telescopes that work in multiple frequency bands are included in all of the appropriate sections.