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  2. List of astronomy acronyms - Wikipedia

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    MONS – (telescope) Measuring Oscillations in Nearby Stars, a Danish space telescope that was proposed and designed but not built [6] MOST – (telescope) Microvariability and Oscillations of STars, a space telescope designed to detect oscillations in the atmospheres of stars and extrasolar planetss in orbit around other stars

  3. Sriram Ramaswamy - Wikipedia

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    Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy (born 10 November 1957) is an Indian physicist. He is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , and previously the director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad .

  4. Human presence in space - Wikipedia

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    Human presence in outer space began with the first launches of artificial object in the mid 20th century, and has increased to the point where Earth is orbited by a vast number of artificial objects and the far reaches of the Solar System have been visited and explored by a range of space probes.

  5. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    This interdisciplinary field encompasses research on the origin of planetary systems, origins of organic compounds in space, rock-water-carbon interactions, abiogenesis on Earth, planetary habitability, research on biosignatures for life detection, and studies on the potential for life to adapt to challenges on Earth and in outer space. [82 ...

  6. Vikram S - Wikipedia

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    Vikram-S rocket is developed by Skyroot Aerospace [7] and the launch was assisted by ISRO and IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre). [8] The rocket reached an apogee of 89.5km.

  7. Aerospace - Wikipedia

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    In most industrial countries, the aerospace industry is a co-operation of the public and private sectors. For example, several states have a civilian space program funded by the government, such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States, European Space Agency in Europe, the Canadian Space Agency in Canada, Indian Space Research Organisation in India, Japan Aerospace ...

  8. Indian astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Astrosat, a space observatory launched in 2015 by ISRO, detected a gamma-ray burst in January 2017, captured a rare phenomenon of a 6 billion year old blue straggler feeding off and sucking out mass and energy out of a bigger star and detected a rare X-ray outburst in a Be/X-ray binary system RX J0209.6-7427. [81] [82] [83] [84]

  9. Sriram (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sriram or Rama is a Hindu god. Sriram may also refer to: Sriram Krishnan, Indian investor; Sriram Raghavan, Indian director; Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo, Indian maharaja; Sriram Sagar Project, dam in Telangana, India; Sriram Balaji, Indian tennis player; Sriram Parthasarathy, Indian musician; Sriram, stage name of Srikanth, Indian actor