Astronomy
"Astronomy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The science concerned with celestial bodies and the observation and interpretation of the radiation received in the vicinity of the earth from the component parts of the universe (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D001256
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.671.065
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| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Astronomy" by people in Profiles.
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Ycas GG, Quinlan F, Diddams SA, Osterman S, Mahadevan S, Redman S, Terrien R, Ramsey L, Bender CF, Botzer B, Sigurdsson S. Demonstration of on-sky calibration of astronomical spectra using a 25 GHz near-IR laser frequency comb. Opt Express. 2012 Mar 12; 20(6):6631-43.