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in astronomy, the absorption and scattering of electromagnetic radiation by dust and gas between an emitting astronomical object and the observer
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extinction

Summary

extinction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (207 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • extinction's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85067529[2].
  • extinction's subclass of is recorded as attenuation[3].
  • extinction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04kkt0[4].
  • extinction's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1274905[5].
  • extinction's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6].
  • extinction's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as reddening-law[7].
  • extinction's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 505[8].
  • extinction's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9].
  • extinction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 118210288[10].
  • extinction's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/e7b45d2f-cdbf-4548-8de6-0af0c5ff5766[11].

Why It Matters

extinction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (207 views/month).[1] extinction has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] extinction is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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