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Elena Constancia Ogilvie.jpg

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Elena Constancia Ogilvie.jpg

Empleada del Observatorio Nacional Argentino (hoy OAC) entre 1906 y 1940, como medidora de placas y calculadora, de destacada actuación en la institución.

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Cámaras expedición 1912.jpg

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Cámaras expedición 1912.jpg

Cámaras utilizada en la expedición 1912 en Cristina, Brasil por el Observatorio Nacional Argentino para realizar el primer intento confirmación de la desviación de la luz por la masa del Sol predicha por Einstein(Teoría de la Relatividad). Realizada por pedido expreso de Einstein (a través de Freundlich). No se pudo concretar por una intensa lluvia que azotó la zona. https://historiadelaastronomia.wordpress.com/documentos/primerintento/

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Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space.webm

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Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space.webm

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured these sounds of interstellar space. Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. The graphic shows the frequency of the waves, which indicate the density of the plasma. Colors indicate the intensity of the waves, or how "loud" they are. Red indicates the loudest waves and blue indicates the weakest. The soundtrack reproduces the amplitude and frequency of the plasma waves as "heard" by Voyager 1. The waves detected by the instrument antennas can be simply amplified and played through a speaker. These frequencies are within the range heard by human ears. Scientists noticed that each occurrence involved a rising tone. The dashed line indicates that the rising tones follow the same slope. This means a continuously increasing density. When scientists extrapolated this line even further back in time (not shown), they deduced that Voyager 1 first encountered interstellar plasma in August 2012. The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. For more information about Voyager, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov . Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa

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Journey to the Center of the Galaxy.webm

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Journey to the Center of the Galaxy.webm

Video Credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Details: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1151d/ Details: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181229.html

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Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres.webm

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Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres.webm

A new video animation of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides dramatic flyover views of this heavily cratered, mysterious world. The images come from Dawn's first mapping orbit at Ceres, at an altitude of 8,400 mile (13,600 kilometers), as well as navigational images taken from 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) away. The images provided information for a three-dimensional terrain model. The vertical dimension has been exaggerated by a factor of two, and a star field has been added in the background. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1380 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150610.html

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MESSENGER False Color Mercury Globe Spin.webm

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MESSENGER False Color Mercury Globe Spin.webm

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=1085&keyword=73&search_cat=

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Mars at Closest Approach 2016.webm

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Mars at Closest Approach 2016.webm

Mars at Closest Approach 2016 Copyright: Jesús Santos Garzás Details: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): 2016 August 9 Details: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160809.html

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