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Since the mid-1990s, starspot observations have been made using increasingly powerful techniques yielding more and more detail: photometry showed starspot growth and decay and showed cyclic behavior similar to the Sun's ; spectroscopy examined the structure of starspot regions by analyzing variations in spectral line splitting due to the Zeeman Effect ; Doppler imaging showed differential rotation of spots for several stars and distributions different from the Sun's ; spectral line analysis measured the temperature range of spots and the stellar surfaces.
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Since then radar observations of other asteroids have found other contact binaries.
Since these observations agreed with theory for elastic waves, they showed that the Earth could be treated as elastic in studies of seismic waves.
Since then, the term " regression " has taken on a variety of meanings, and it may be used by modern statisticians to describe phenomena of sampling bias which have little to do with Galton's original observations in the field of genetics.
Since the discovery of the Cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ) by Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965, most cosmologists concluded that observations were best explained by the big bang model.
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Since 1908, he had been charged by the French authorities with astronomic and meteorological observations ( mainly observations of sun eclipses ) and political tasks in various countries all over the world including ( Algeria, Morocco, Turkistan, Russia, India, the USA, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji and Tonga ).
Since all physical observations are subject to errors the resulting position fix is also subject to error.
Since the Shuttle could be oriented in only one direction at a time, X-ray observations had to be coordinated carefully with ultraviolet observations.
Since its founding in 1911, the American Association of Variable Star Observers ( AAVSO ) has coordinated, collected, evaluated, analyzed, published, and archived variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers and makes the records available to professional astronomers, researchers, and educators.
Since these observations, further research has linked resistin to other physiological systems such as inflammation and energy homeostasis.
Since the universe must be at least as old as the oldest thing in it, there are a number of observations which put a lower limit on the age of the universe ; these include the temperature of the coolest white dwarfs, which gradually cool as they age, and the dimmest turnoff point of main sequence stars in clusters ( lower-mass stars spend a greater amount of time on the main sequence, so the lowest-mass stars that have evolved off of the main sequence set a minimum age ).
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