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The Universe is an American documentary television series that features computer-generated imagery and computer graphics of astronomical objects in the universe plus interviews with experts who study in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics. The program was produced by Flight 33 Productions and Workaholic Productions.
Seven television series make up the Star Wars animated micro-series franchise: Clone Wars, Blips, Forces of Destiny, Galaxy of Adventures, Roll Out, Galaxy of Creatures, and Galactic Pals. All series in total amount to 171 episodes across 12 seasons of television, including one special.
The universe's stars are dying faster than new ones are born, and using the latest technology experts investigate the secrets of the last stars of the cosmos, and what this stellar apocalypse means for life on Earth.
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
The following is a list of particularly notable actual or hypothetical stars that have their own articles in Wikipedia, but are not included in the lists above. BPM 37093 — a diamond star Cygnus X-1 — X-ray source
This body of work was collectively known as the Star Wars Expanded Universe for decades. In October 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion. [1] [2] [3] In April 2014, Lucasfilm rebranded the Expanded Universe material as Star Wars Legends and declared it non-canon to the Star Wars' franchise.
The universe of Star Wars is generally similar to the real universe but its laws of physics are less strict allowing for more imaginative stories. [14] One result of that is a mystical power known as the Force which is described in the original film as "an energy field created by all living things ... [that] binds the galaxy together". [15]
[1] [3] [5] [6] The opposite occurrence, of the stars disappearing from view, appears in Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" and heralds the end of the universe. [3] [5] Poul Anderson's 1967 short story "Starfog" is set on a planet in a star cluster so dense that the night sky is entirely filled with stars, while ...