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18947847. LC Class. PZ7.L9673 Nu 1989. Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction by the American author Lois Lowry about the escape of a family of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II. The story revolves around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lives with her mother, father, and sister Kirsti in Copenhagen in 1943.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,800 [1] five-pointed terrazzo -and- brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. The stars, the first of which were permanently installed in 1960, are monuments to achievement in ...
Lois Lowry. Lois Ann Lowry (/ ˈlaʊəri /; [2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for ...
The asterism of the Big Dipper (shown in this star map in green) lies within the constellation of Ursa Major. The Big Dipper (US, Canada) or the Plough (UK, Ireland) [1][2] is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; [3][4][5][6] six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third magnitude.
For other uses, see Star (disambiguation) and Stars (disambiguation). Image of the Sun, a G-type main-sequence star, the closest to Earth. A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. 1 The nearest star to Earth is the Sun.
Counting Stars. For other uses, see Counting Stars (disambiguation). " Counting Stars " is a song by American pop rock band OneRepublic from their third studio album, Native (2013). The song was written by lead singer Ryan Tedder, and produced by Tedder and Noel Zancanella. It was released as the album's second single on June 14, 2013.
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 ...
This number is likely much higher, due to the sheer number of stars needed to be surveyed; a star approaching the Solar System 10 million years ago, moving at a typical Sun-relative 20–200 kilometers per second, would be 600–6,000 light-years from the Sun at present day, with millions of stars closer to the Sun.