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41Comet Hyakutake — C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) Comet Hyakutake captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 4, 1996, with an infrared filter. Discovery and designation …
42Chih — For the Celtic F.C. footballer, see Zheng Zhi There are many Chinese words whose pronunciation can be represented as chih (or, in the modern romanization, zhi) in Chinese: 志 zhì, aspiration, will. The will is a fundamental concept in the… …
43NGC 300 — An ultraviolet image of NGC 300 taken by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Observation data (J2000 epoch) C …
44Ben Mayer — (? 2000) was an amateur astronomer perhaps best known for the invention of the Projection Blink Comparator (PROBLICOM). This low cost version of a tool used by professional astronomers allowed amateurs to contribute to some phases of serious… …
45SS 433 — Artist s impression of SS 433 Observation data Epoch J2000.0       …
46Shiseido — Infobox Company company name = Shiseido Company, Limited company company type = Public KK (tyo|4911) foundation = 1872 location = flagicon|Japan Tokyo, Japan key people = Shinzo Maeda, President CEO industry = Consumer goods products = Cosmetics… …
47Opposition effect — The opposition effect (also opposition spike, or opposition surge) is the brightening of a rough surface, or an object with many particles, when illuminated from directly behind the observer. It is so named because the reflected light from the… …
48Bleaching of wood pulp — is the chemical processing carried out on various types of wood pulp to decrease the color of the pulp, so that it becomes whiter. The main use of wood pulp is to make paper where whiteness (similar to but not exactly the same as brightness ) is… …
49Oscurecimiento global — Contaminación Contaminación atmosférica Lluvia ácida • Índice de calidad del aire • Modelos de dispersión en la atmósfera • Clorofluorocarbonos • Oscurecimiento global • Calentamiento g …
50solar flare — Astron. flare (def. 22). [1935 40] * * * Sudden intense brightening of a small part of the Sun s surface, often near a sunspot group. Flares develop in a few minutes and may last several hours, releasing intense X rays and streams of energetic… …
