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HAYSTACK [5 records]

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Record 1 2022-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • Optics
CONT

Picking out the dim light of a planet from a star billions of times brighter is akin to finding a needle in a cosmic haystack... In order to achieve this feat, researchers are developing techniques to block out the starlight while preserving the light emitted by the planet. This is called starlight suppression.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Optique

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

Counterfeit currency was seized in 77 countries.

CONT

In 1991 government agents detected between $6 million and $8 million worth of counterfeit currency created on reprographic equipment, a needle in a haystack compared with the $265 billion handled by the Federal Reserve System in the same year.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

Des contrefaçons ont été saisies dans 77 pays.

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Data Banks and Databases
OBS

Haystack is a computer-based search and retrieval system providing complete information on any of more than 13 million parts purchased by the United States government.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Banques et bases de données

Spanish

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Record 4 1990-12-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
CONT

Most prominences are of the active type; they originate high above the chromosphere and pour their streamers down into it. Quiescent prominences are the least active and have the longest lives; their most common form is the "haystack". Eruptive prominences are among the rarer types. These rise from material above the chromosphere, attaining high speeds and great altitudes before they vanish.

CONT

Bright rose-coloured prominences were sometimes seen extending above the edge of the moon’s disk and into the corona.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
DEF

Partie visible d'un jet de gaz au-dessus de la photosphère.

CONT

Les protubérances peuvent se ranger en 2 grandes catégories : les protubérances quiescents, s'étendant comme d'immenses nuages, volutes etc., et les protubérances éruptives, dont les jets lumineux s'élèvent parfois à plus de 1 million de kilomètres de hauteur.

CONT

Comme la chromosphère, les protubérances peuvent être observées régulièrement en dehors des éclipses totales à l'aide du spectroscope.

Spanish

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Record 5 1989-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
OBS

A very large, high-precision disk radar atop Haystack Hill in Massachusetts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie

Spanish

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