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Huygens British & World English

a European space probe which is part of the Cassini spacecraft, which detached from the orbiter and landed on Saturn’s moon Titan in 2005

Huygens, Christiaan British & World English

(1629–95), Dutch physicist, mathematician, and astronomer. His wave theory of light enabled him to explain reflection and refraction. He also patented a pendulum clock, introduced the convergent eyepiece for telescopes, discovered a satellite of Saturn, and recognized the nature of Saturn’s rings, which had eluded Galileo

Huygens eyepiece British & World English

a simple eyepiece consisting of two separate planoconvex lenses, used chiefly in refracting telescopes of long focal length