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Thuban becomes the North Star. [154] 27,800 AD Polaris again is the North Star. [155] 27,000 years The eccentricity of Earth's orbit will reach a minimum, 0.00236 (it is now 0.01671). [156] [157] 66,270 AD Sirius becomes the South Star at 1.6° of the south celestial pole, due to the combination of precession and its own proper motion. [158 ...
The larger galaxy, dubbed the "Death Star Galaxy" by NASA astronomers, has an energetic jet directed towards its companion. The discovery was announced by NASA on 18 December 2007. Observation of the enormous jet was possible due to the combined efforts of both space and ground-based telescopes.
The second Death Star is featured on the cover of the book Star Wars: Aftermath (2015), which also features many flashbacks to the destruction of the second Death Star, as well as the events directly after its destruction. One of the main characters in the story personally escaped the explosion of the Death Star.
From planetary meet-ups to the first total lunar eclipse in three years, here are the top astronomy events to look for throughout 2025: Stellar views of Mars will greet stargazers in January as ...
In an event that sounds more like an episode of 'Star Wars' than one of reality, scientists have discovered evidence of a death star literally ripping a planet apart with its gravity.
Saturn's moon Mimas is known for its uncanny resemblance to the dreaded Death Star in the original "Star Wars" movie. Astronomers said on Wednesday that data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...
Nemesis is a hypothetical red dwarf [1] or brown dwarf, [2] originally postulated in 1984 [3] to be orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 95,000 AU (1.5 light-years), [2] somewhat beyond the Oort cloud, to explain a perceived cycle of mass extinctions in the geological record, which seem to occur more often at intervals of 26 million years.
Death Star, a fictional giant military space station in the 1965 film Attack from Space; Deathstar a 1984 video game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers "Death Star", a nickname of Ghroth, one of the fictional Ramsey Campbell deities of the Cthulhu Mythos