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  2. List of Known Space characters - Wikipedia

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    While in most of the Known Space Series, the name "Outsiders" refers to the aforementioned species, in stories that happen before the discovery of aliens the term "Outsider" refers to any alien that might make contact with mankind. The Outsiders may have inspired the Melnorme from Star Control 2, another highly advanced and very mysterious species.

  3. List of superhero teams and groups - Wikipedia

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    A-Team; Advocates; All-Winners Squad; Alpha Flight; Annihilators; Astonishing Avengers; Avengers; Avengers A.I; Avengers of the Supernatural; Avengers Unity Division; Captain America Corps; Champions (1975 team) Champions (2016 team) The Chosen; Cosmic Avengers; Dark Ultimates; Deadpool Corps; Defenders; Earth Force; Excalibur; Exiles (Marvel ...

  4. Ursa Major moving group - Wikipedia

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    The Big Dipper stars Dubhe (α UMa) and Alkaid (η UMa) are not members of the group, both being somewhat further away and moving in very different directions. The bright, nearby star Sirius was long believed to be a member of the group, but may not be, according to research in 2003 by Jeremy King et al. at Clemson University .

  5. Alpha Leporis - Wikipedia

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    Alpha Leporis is the star's Bayer designation.The traditional name Arneb comes from the Arabic أرنب ’arnab 'hare' [14] ('Lepus' is Latin for hare).In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [15] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars.

  6. Meet SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew: The daring 4 who are in ...

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    That mission's name, Inspiration4, derives from Shift4, the payment-processing company that Isaacman founded at age 16 in his parents' basement after dropping out of high school. He is still the CEO.

  7. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Alpha Librae - Wikipedia

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    The brighter of the two is a white star of spectral type A3, with an apparent magnitude of 2.8. Its companion is a type F4 star of apparent brightness 5.2. They are probably members of the Castor Moving Group of stars that have a similar motion through space and share a common origin some 200 million years ago. [8]

  9. All 60 bits of North Carolina trivia in the NYT crossword so ...

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    The movie stars Wilmington’s own Michael Jordan, a six time NBA champion and perhaps the greatest basketball player of all time. CANES 25D: Carolina N.H.L.’ers, informally (Thursday, March 14)