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Huntington Station

(Encyclopedia)Huntington Station, uninc. town (2020 pop. 34,878), Suffolk co., SE N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island. The town has a diverse manufacturing base a...

space science

(Encyclopedia)space science, body of scientific knowledge as it relates to space exploration; it is sometimes also called astronautics. Space science draws on the conventional sciences of physics, chemistry, biolog...

Brandy Station

(Encyclopedia)Brandy Station, small trading center, Culpeper co., Va. It was the scene of the greatest cavalry engagement of the Civil War (also called the battle of Fleetwood Hill), fought June 9, 1863. Gen. Alfre...

space-time

(Encyclopedia)space-time, central concept in the theory of relativity that replaces the earlier concepts of space and time as separate absolute entities. In relativity one cannot uniquely distinguish space and time...

space law

(Encyclopedia)space law, agreements governing the exploration and use of outer space, developed since the first launching (1957) by humans of a satellite into space. Space law, an aspect of international law, has g...

space travel

(Encyclopedia)space travel: see space exploration; space science. ...

outer space

(Encyclopedia)outer space: see space exploration. ...

space biology

(Encyclopedia)space biology: see exobiology.

Webb Space Telescope

(Encyclopedia)Webb Space Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is an infrared space telescope, the largest in space at its launc...

Voyager, space probes

(Encyclopedia)Voyager, in space exploration: see space exploration; space probe. ...