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Objects in Space. " Objects in Space " is the 14th episode of the science fiction television series Firefly. It was the 10th episode to premiere on Fox during the series' original broadcast and aired on Friday, December 13, 2002, one day after the network announced the show's cancellation. Serenity encounters Jubal Early, a ruthless ...
Serenity is a fictional spacecraft that appears in Joss Whedon 's Firefly television series and related works. Set in the 26th century, the series follows the nine-person crew of the Firefly -class vessel, a small transport ship, as they earn a living through various legal and illegal means. The ship is the main setting; it appears in all ...
Derrial Book (commonly called Shepherd Book and born as Henry Evans) is a fictional character played by Ron Glass in the science-fiction / Western television series Firefly and its sequel movie, Serenity. He is a Shepherd (the literal English translation of the clerical title "Pastor", from the Latin), and provides frequent spiritual advice and ...
Reaver (. Firefly. ) Reavers are a fictional group of humans in the television series Firefly and subsequent film Serenity who live on the fringes of civilized space and have become animalistic. Within most of the timeline of the series and movie, the existence of Reavers is officially denied by the Alliance, the ruling government of humanity ...
Bushwhacked (. Firefly. ) " Bushwhacked " is the third episode of the science fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. The crew of Serenity comes across a transport ship drifting in space. After recovering a terrified survivor and a valuable cargo, they are pulled in by an Alliance cruiser.
A diagram of a typical nautical sextant, a tool used in celestial navigation to measure the angle between two objects viewed by means of its optical sight. Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the ...
Firefly (TV series) Firefly is an American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of ...
In astronomy, a syzygy (/ ˈsɪzədʒi / SIZ-ə-jee; from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía) 'union, yoke') [1] is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system. [2] The word is often used in reference to the Sun, Earth, and either the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction ...