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  2. List of nearest stars - Wikipedia

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    The closest encounter to the Sun so far predicted is the low-mass orange dwarf star Gliese 710 / HIP 89825 with roughly 60% the mass of the Sun. [4] It is currently predicted to pass 0.1696 ± 0.0065 ly (10 635 ± 500 au) from the Sun in 1.290 ± 0.04 million years from the present, close enough to significantly disturb the Solar System's Oort ...

  3. Zai Na Yaoyuan De Difang - Wikipedia

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    Su Xiaokang [14] translated it into "In a Land Far Far Away". A University of Toronto academic Joshua D. Pilzer [ 15 ] [ 3 ] translated it into " In That Far-Off Land ". An Indian historian Sarvepalli Gopal [ 16 ] translated it into " In That Remote Place ".

  4. Pole of inaccessibility - Wikipedia

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    The problem entails finding such a place in the world ocean where, if a person fell overboard while on a ship at sea, they would be as far away from any land in any direction as possible. It lies in the South Pacific Ocean , and is equally distant from the three closest land vertices which are each roughly 2,688 km (1,670 mi) away.

  5. Far Away Places - Wikipedia

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    "Far Away Places" is an American popular song. It was written by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer and published in 1948 . The recording by Bing Crosby & The Ken Darby Choir was recorded on November 25, 1948 [ 1 ] and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24532.

  6. Parasang - Wikipedia

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    The present-day New Persian word is also farsakh (فرسخ), and should not be confused with the present-day farsang (فرسنگ), which is a metric unit. [ n 1 ] The earliest surviving mention of the parasang comes from the mid-5th-century BC Herodotus ( Histories ii.6, v.53, vi.42), who defines the measure to be equivalent to 30 stadia , or ...

  7. Far Away - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 25 December 2024, at 17:53 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. 'Far and Away' at 30: Ron Howard looks back at Tom ... - AOL

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    As Howard told Yahoo Entertainment during a 2016 Director’s Reel interview, Far and Away “was kind of their honeymoon project” (watch above, with Far and Away starting at 3:42).

  9. Event horizon - Wikipedia

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    Far away from the black hole, a particle can move in any direction. It is only restricted by the speed of light. Closer to the black hole spacetime starts to deform. In some convenient coordinate systems, there are more paths going towards the black hole than paths moving away. [Note 1]