- Industry: Aerospace
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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
Transmission of heat by moving heated gases. In a hot-air furnace the heated air rises and cooler, heavier air falls.
Industry:Astronomy
The distance from one side of a body to the other, measured through the center.
Industry:Astronomy
The great circle of the celestial sphere all points of which are 90 degrees from the poles. It is the plane of the earth's equator projected onto the celestial sphere.
Industry:Astronomy
A gas used by all green plants and recycled by them to form wood and the oxygen we breathe. In very large quantities it can be poisonous to animal life.
Industry:Astronomy
An ideal or imaginary body that is absolutely black when cold, but is a perfect absorber of radiation and at the same time a perfect radiator. Black body temperatures are used to work out the theoretical laws of radiation and to calculate the temperature of the sun.
Industry:Astronomy
The emission of electromagnetic radiation as the result of exposure to some other radiation, which emission ceases when the stimulus that produces it ceases to act on the emitting substance. Thus light passing through a gas, may change the energy state of the atoms and cause them to emit light of a different wavelength.
Industry:Astronomy
Any instrument designed for producing and studying interference of two or more trains of waves or beams of electromagnetic radiation of the same range of wavelengths. Usually denotes an optical interferometer that separates a beam of light into two or more parts that travel in different paths and are then combined together to produce interference fringes.
Industry:Astronomy
The s. I. Unit of energy, work, or quantity of heat. It is the force of one newton acting over a distance of a meter.
Industry:Astronomy
The amount of matter in a body, which should not be confused with weight. The same object will have different weights in space and earth but the mass remains constant.
Industry:Astronomy
