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...s-date=2018-01-13}}</ref>) was an American [[astronomer]]. Like his father Lewis, he was a founder member of the British Astronomical Association in 1890, r ...spot.com/2012/06/lewis-swift-and-son.html Skywatchers: LEWIS SWIFT AND SON by Richard Taibi, 2012]</ref> ...

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...el]]. Its alternate name '''NGC 58''' is due to the observation by [[Lewis Swift]], who was unaware that Tempel had already discovered the celestial object ...proximately 236 Mly (236 million [[light year]]s) from [[Earth]], measured by way of a generic "redshift estimate".<ref name="ned" /> ...

| name = Lewis Swift | image = Lewis Swift.jpg ...

...ef name="SEDS"/> Its membership in the group was finally confirmed in 1996 by direct measurements of its heavily obscured by [[Interstellar medium|interstellar matter]].<ref name="Bergh">{{cite book ...

...nce]].<ref name=uanews/> After he escaped to [[England]], he was sent back by parachute as an organizer for [[Special Operations Executive]] SOE committi | [[64P/Swift-Gehrels]]* || 8 February 1973 ...

| caption = Magellanic barred spiral galaxy NGC 55 imaged by the [[La Silla Observatory]] ...ete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer ...

| caption = NGC 1042 imaged by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] ...vered on 10 November 1885 by [[United_States|American]] astronomer [[Lewis Swift]].<ref name="selig">{{cite web | url = https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc ...

{{Short description|Figurines allegedly found by Waldemar Julsrud in 1944}} ...n the Mexican city of [[Acámbaro]], [[Guanajuato]]. The figurines are said by some to resemble [[dinosaur]]s and are sometimes cited as [[anachronism]]s. ...

...foundry.<ref>[''Swanlinbar and its ironworks from the Registry of Deeds'', by Rev. Dan Gallogly, in Breifne Historical Journal, Vol. VI, No. 21 (1982), p [[Jonathan Swift]] in his 1728 essay, ''On Barbarous Denominations In Ireland'', wrote: ...

...came with an imperial order-in-council dated 1825. This move was inspired by a number of factors. The [[United Kingdom]] was now operating a very succes ...assimilating their monies of account with the British pound sterling. Gold discoveries in [[Australia]] in 1851 drove the silver dollar out of the West Indies, bu ...

...for [[Amateur astronomy|amateur astronomic]] observation, being separated by only {{Val|20|ul=arcminute}}.<ref name=OMeara2014/> * [[SN 1973R]] ([[Type II supernova|type&nbsp;II]], mag. 14.5) was discovered by Leonida Rosino on 19 December 1973.<ref>{{cite web | website=Transient Name ...

...g by W. Sherwin, 1671, after hi Wellcome V0005185.jpg|thumb|William Salmon by W. Sherwin, 1671]] [[File:William Salmon White.jpg|thumb|William Salmon by [[Robert White (engraver)|Robert White]], 1700]] ...

...the [[All Blacks]] in [[rugby union]], in particular the two famous tries by "The Prince" HH [[Alexander Obolensky]]. ...ry]] ''[[Night Mail]]'', incorporating poetry by [[W. H. Auden]] and music by [[Benjamin Britten]], is premiered at the [[Cambridge Arts Theatre]].<ref>{ ...

Gold was first discovered in Australia on 15 February 1823, by assistant surveyor James McBrien, at Fish River, between [[Rydal, New South In the 1850s gold discoveries in Victoria, in [[Beechworth]], [[Castlemaine, Victoria|Castlemaine]], [[Da ...

...he Earth by [[Ferdinand Magellan]] in 1519&ndash;1522, they were described by [[Antonio Pigafetta]] as dim clusters of stars.<ref>{{cite book | first=Charlton Thomas | last=Lewis | date=1918 ...

This is a list of [[invention]]s followed by name of the [[inventor]] (or whomever else it is named after). For other li * [[Lewis gun]] – [[Isaac Newton Lewis]] ...

...ight|"Man and Wife of the 'Pimlingai,' or Slave Class," (1903), photograph by [[William Henry Furness III|Furness]]. Illustration from ''The Island of St ...t have been seen for some years, but the transfer of wealth is facilitated by a common understanding that a stone has a new owner.<ref>{{cite web |url=ht ...

...mosphere]], so instruments to detect X-rays must be taken to high altitude by [[Balloon-borne telescope|balloons]], [[sounding rocket]]s, and [[X-ray ast ...ef> The first cosmic (beyond the Solar System) X-ray source was discovered by a sounding rocket in 1962. Called [[Scorpius X-1]] (Sco X-1) (the first X-r ...

...2004]]</ref> The [[Late Ordovician mass extinction]] has been hypothesised by some researchers to have occurred as a result of such a gamma-ray burst.<re ...tical [[spectroscopy]], and thus their distances and energy outputs. These discoveries—and subsequent studies of the galaxies and [[supernova]]e associated with t ...