An organization, the International Organization for Standardization, that sets standards in many businesses and technologies, including computing and communications.
a combining form meaning “equal”: isochromatic; in chemistry, used in the names of substances that are isomeric with the substance denoted by the base word: isocyanic acid.
It was found by special instruments designed to detect water vapour carried on the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) launched by the European Space Agency.
It said the discovery was made with a long-wavelength spectrometer aboard an infrared space observatory launched in November 1995 by the European Space Agency.
They have been following it since September 2012, using the large Nancay radio telescope (in the Cher region of France), the Herschel infrared space observatory, at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory (in the Pyrenees), and with the antennas at Bure (in the Alps), at Pico Veleta (Spain), and at Chajnantor (Chile).
Joint NASA/European Space Agency missions such as IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) and ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) have paved the way for planned Hubble-style observatories such as SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility.
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