Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
van Rhijn function
Directory
References
Discover
Nativity Scene, Adoration of the Magi, Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Montenegro
Why Is Christmas in December?
Mount Everest (Mt. Everest, mountains, Himalayas).
Is Mount Everest Really the Tallest Mountain in the World?
Mother tickling her daughter, sitting in a garden
Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?
Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.
7 Vestigial Features of the Human Body
Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.
9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals
Saguaro cacti dot the Sonoran Desert landscape at Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Formerly Saguaro National Monument cactus
Can You Drink Water from a Cactus?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

van Rhijn function

astronomy

Learn about this topic in these articles:

stellar luminosity function

  • Milky Way Galaxy
    In Milky Way Galaxy: The stellar luminosity function

    …it is usually called the van Rhijn function, named after the Dutch astronomer Pieter J. van Rhijn. The van Rhijn function is a basic datum for the local portion of the Galaxy, but it is not necessarily representative for an area larger than the immediate solar neighbourhood. Investigators have found…

    Read More