Five Centuries of Exploration: From Distant Shores to Distant Planets

Probing Structures of Distant Extrasolar Planets With Microlensing

Planetary companions to the source stars of a caustic-crossing binary microlensing events can be detected via the deviation from the parent light curves created when the caustic magnifies the star light reflecting off the atmosphere or surface of the planets. The magnitude of the deviation is δp ∼ ǫpρ p , where ǫp is the fraction of starlight reflected by the planet and ρp is the angular radius...

Music From A Distant Planet

Distant Healing

This article reviews 61 studies of distant healing, which is healing that is deliberately sent by one or more healers as an intent, wish, meditation, or prayer to a healee who may be in the healers' presence or may be far away. Distance, even thousands of miles, does not appear to limit the effects of healing. Significant effects of distant healing are demonstrated randomized controlled trials ...

obstacles facing distant education

in the present century, which is the age of rapid growth of technology and knowledge, in addition to the development of formal teaching, increasing attention has been paid to distant education by various organizations and societies. this paper is a report of a research entitled “a study of the success and obstacles of distant education services project of khorassan province literacy organizatio...

Directional recording of swell from distant storms.

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