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The Indestructibles (Ancient Egyptian: j.ḫmw-sk – literally "the ones not knowing destruction" [1] [2]) was the name given by ancient Egyptian astronomers to two bright stars which, at that time, could always be seen circling the North Pole. [3]
The regions with higher density of stars are shown; these correspond with known star clusters (Hyades and Coma Berenices) and moving groups. This is a list of nearby stellar associations and moving groups. A stellar association is a very loose star cluster, looser than an open cluster. A moving group is the remnant of such a stellar association ...
Alliance Rising: The Hinder Stars I is a 2019 science fiction novel by American writers C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher. It is one of Cherryh's Merchanter novels and is set in the author's Alliance–Union universe .
IC 342 (also known as Caldwell 5) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, located relatively close to the Milky Way.Despite its size and actual brightness, its location behind dusty areas near the galactic equator makes it difficult to observe, leading to the nickname "The Hidden Galaxy", [4] [1] though it can readily be detected even with binoculars. [5]
Tryout his winter brainteaser by finding the hidden stars in this image of snowflakes. Gergely Dudás, also known as Dudolf, is the best at making brainteasers! Tryout his winter brainteaser by ...
The most luminous known star. Quyllur: 2.1878 [5] 5,540 2023 First red supergiant at cosmological distances. Mothra: 2.091 [6] 5,400 2023 A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant or yellow hypergiant and a Blue supergiant. MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1: 1.49 [7] 4,410 2018 The most distant known star prior to the discovery of Earendel. Warhol 0.94 ...
The Hipparchus star catalog is a list of at least 850 stars that also contained coordinates of stellar positions in the sky, based on celestial equatorial latitude and longitude. [1] According to British classicist Thomas Heath , Hipparchus was the first to employ such a method to map the stars, at least in the West. [ 2 ]
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!