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  1. Future Missions

    There will always be a need to monitor and study the Sun, the nearby star that throws huge amounts of high-energy particles and electromagnetic...
    Peter Bond in Solar Surveyors
    Chapter 2022
  2. Trojan Asteroid Satellites, Rings, and Activity

    The Lucy mission will encounter five Jupiter Trojans during its mission with three of the five already known to be multiple systems. These include a...

    Keith S. Noll, Michael E. Brown, ... Harold A. Weaver in Space Science Reviews
    Article Open access 12 October 2023
  3. Accretion disks, quasars and cosmology: meandering towards understanding

    As Setti and Woltjer noted back in 1973, one can use quasars to construct the Hubble diagram; however, the actual application of the idea was not...

    Bożena Czerny, Shulei Cao, ... Michal Zajaček in Astrophysics and Space Science
    Article Open access 08 February 2023
  4. High-Mass X-ray Binaries

    Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This...
    Francesca Fornasini, Vallia Antoniou, Guillaume Dubus in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
    Reference work entry 2024
  5. High-Mass X-ray Binaries

    Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This...
    Francesca Fornasini, Vallia Antoniou, Guillaume Dubus in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
    Living reference work entry 2024
  6. Dynamical orbital evolution of asteroids and planetesimals across distinct chemical reservoirs due to accretion growth of planets in the early solar system

    N -body numerical simulations code for the orbital motion of asteroids/planetesimals within the asteroid belt under the gravitational influence of the...

    Article 11 November 2023
  7. Nearby Young Stars and Young Moving Groups

    The past two decades have seen dramatic progress in our knowledge of the population of stars of age \(\lesssim \)...
    Joel H. Kastner, David A. Principe in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
    Living reference work entry 2022
  8. The Galaxy

    The word Galaxy comes from the Greek and means Milky Way. For the ancient Greeks the Milky Way consisted of namely milk poured out by the goddess...
    Chapter 2023
  9. The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M at solar metallicity

    Gravitational-wave astronomy has revealed a population of stellar-mass black holes more massive than observed previously by other means. The maximum...

    Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, ... Zepei Xing in Nature Astronomy
    Article 29 June 2023
  10. Solar Neighborhood

    Leticia Carigi in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
    Reference work entry 2023
  11. Earth=Mars: a snowball world

    Mars introduction; atmospheres, magnetospheres and planetary cores; MGS and magnetic rocks of Earth and Mars; Martian rivers, seas...
    Michael Carroll in Planet Earth, Past and Present
    Chapter 2023
  12. Galaxies

    Various classification schemes for galaxies are introduced, including the Hubble-de Vaucouleurs sequence, as well as other classes of galaxy:...
    Malcolm S. Longair in Galaxy Formation
    Chapter 2023
  13. Milky Way

    Leticia Carigi in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
    Reference work entry 2023
  14. Planet Formation

    Motivating the study of planet formation is not difficult for any curious audience. One of the fundamental human questions is that of origins: “where...
    Chapter
  15. 3D stable and weakly unstable periodic orbits around the Earth near the retrograde co-orbital resonance with the Moon

    Stable or weakly unstable orbits in cislunar space are attractive as potential locations that natural objects including dust particles may be...

    Article 27 April 2022
  16. Brown Dwarf

    Gibor Basri, Adam J. Burgasser in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
    Reference work entry 2023
  17. Conclusion

    Peru is surprising by its extraordinary natural diversity. This manifests itself, among other things, in the scorching expanses of the desert...
    Émile Biémont in The Incas' Sky
    Chapter 2024
  18. Chemical Enrichment in Groups and Clusters

    As building blocks of dust, rocky planets, and even complex life, the chemical elements heavier than hydrogen (H) and helium (He) – called “metals”...
    François Mernier, Veronica Biffi in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
    Living reference work entry 2022
  19. Spitzer’s Solar System studies of asteroids, planets and the zodiacal cloud

    In its 16 years of scientific measurements, the Spitzer Space Telescope performed a number of groundbreaking and key infrared measurements of Solar...

    David E. Trilling, Carey Lisse, ... Anne Verbiscer in Nature Astronomy
    Article 08 October 2020
  20. Cometary plasma science

    Comets hold the key to the understanding of our Solar System, its formation and its evolution, and to the fundamental plasma processes at work both...

    C. Goetz, H. Gunell, ... E. Vigren in Experimental Astronomy
    Article 07 August 2021
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