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Stars! can be run on most versions of Windows from Windows 3.1 up. It can even be run on Linux systems through the Wine system. However, under Wine, version 2.70 crashes during combat if combat sounds are enabled. Stars! does not run directly on the 64-bit version of Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7, which cannot run
Beta Canis Majoris is the star's Bayer designation.The traditional names Mirzam, Al-Murzim or Murzim, [11] derive from the Arabic (مرزم) for 'The Herald', and probably refer to its position, heralding (i.e., rising before) Sirius in the night sky.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
In computing, Windows on Windows (commonly referred to as WOW) [1] [2] [3] is a discontinued compatibility layer of 32-bit versions of the Windows NT family of operating systems since 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1, which extends NTVDM to provide limited support for running legacy 16-bit programs written for Windows 3.x or earlier.
Detail of Bayer's chart for Orion showing the belt stars and Orion Nebula region, with both Greek and Latin letter labels visible. A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.
Delta Orionis is the star's Bayer designation, 34 Orionis its Flamsteed designation. The name Mintaka itself is derived from an Arabic term for 'belt': منطقة or manṭaqa . [ 18 ] In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [ 19 ] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars.
Lambda Scorpii is a triple star system and the second-brightest object in the constellation of Scorpius.It is formally named Shaula; Lambda Scorpii is its Bayer designation, which is Latinised from λ Scorpii and abbreviated Lambda Sco or λ Sco.
Main stars: 3: Bayer/Flamsteed stars: 10: Stars with planets: 1: Stars brighter than 3.00 m: 3: Stars within 10.00 pc (32.62 ly) 0: Brightest star: α TrA (Atria) (1.91 m) Messier objects: 0: Meteor showers: 0: Bordering constellations: Norma Ara Circinus Apus: Visible at latitudes between +25° and −90°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m ...