Every day, we note the weather: temperature, rain, cloud cover, wind and humidity. Climate is the long-term prevailing weather in an area and is largely determined by temperature and precipitation.

Class-tested and coherent, this groundbreaking new textbook teaches web-era information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic ...

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native species: A species that occurs in a particular region or ecosystem by natural processes, rather than by accidental or deliberate introduction by humans. introduced species: A species that ...

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The astronomy immersion provides students with the opportunity for additional study in astronomy in order to build a secondary area of expertise in support of their major or other areas of interest.

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Having trouble finding your way around the night sky? Curious what that celestial object is? Here’s what you need to know to get outside and start observing. Observing, Observing Basics, The Moon ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Two astronauts — one ...

Sirius—as that wonderful aid to physical astronomy, the spectroscope, reveals—is shooting through space at the rate of a thousand million miles a year. The star known at 61 Cygni has a ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after Chris Schur In an astroimaging system using off-axis guiding, a small pick-off prism or mirror diverts light from a star outside the imaging scope’s field of ...