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27 de mai. de 2024 · Lyman Spitzer was an American astrophysicist and theoretical physicist born on June 26, 1914. Lyman Spitzer earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1938 and later became the chairman of the Astrophysical Sciences Department and director of the Princeton University Observatory.
Há 2 dias · Lyman Spitzer began considering ways to solve problems involved in confining a hot plasma, and, unaware of the Z-pinch efforts, he created the stellarator. Spitzer applied to the US Atomic Energy Commission for funding to build a test device.
9 de mai. de 2024 · In images from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy. It turns out these streams can help explain how black holes billions of times the mass of our Sun satiate their big appetites but remain "quiet" eaters.
9 de mai. de 2024 · This image, released on May 9, 2024, from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows streams of dust flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy.
15 de mai. de 2024 · According to the PPPL website, pppl.gov/about/history, the laboratory’s founder, Princeton University astronomy professor Lyman Spitzer, Jr., conceptualized the stellarator — a device that confines high-temperature plasma in a figure-eight orientation with a “twisty” external magnetic field — to study controlled ...
Há 2 dias · Stellarators were developed by Lyman Spitzer in 1950 and evolved into four designs: Torsatron, Heliotron, Heliac and Helias. One example is Wendelstein 7-X , a German device. It is the world's largest stellarator.
14 de mai. de 2024 · It was named in honour of Lyman Spitzer, Jr., an American astrophysicist who in a seminal 1946 paper foresaw the power of astronomical telescopes operating in space. The Spitzer observatory was launched on August 25, 2003, by a Delta II rocket.
