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  2. List of astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia

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    Hubble volume, a spherical region of the observable universe surrounding an observer beyond which objects recede from that observer at a rate greater than the speed of light due to the expansion of the universe, named after Edwin Hubble. KBC Void is an immense empty region of space, named after Ryan Keenan, Amy Barger, and Lennox Cowie.

  3. List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies

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    For instance, for a large portion of names ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian; [note 1] occasionally an -n has been lost historically from the nominative form, and reappears in the oblique and therefore in the English ...

  4. Lists of astronomical objects - Wikipedia

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    List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun; List of Solar System objects by size; Lists of geological features of the Solar System; List of natural satellites (moons) Lists of small Solar System bodies; Lists of comets; List of meteor showers; Minor planets. List of minor planets. List of exceptional asteroids; List of minor planet ...

  5. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in all of the observable universe. [1] On the order of 100,000 galaxies make up the Local Supercluster, and about 51 galaxies are in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list).

  6. Stephen Hawking: Black holes could be portals to other universes

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    Of course what comes out of the other side of a black hole would unlikely resemble what went in. According to the Boston Globe , on the matter, Hawking noted , "It's like burning an encyclopedia.

  7. Scientific phenomena named after people - Wikipedia

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    Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him, see List of things named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet; Divisia index – François Divisia; Doebner–Miller reaction – Oscar Döbner (Doebner) and Wilhelm von Miller; Dollo's law – Louis Dollo; Donnan effect (a.k.a. Gibbs–Donnan effect) – see Gibbs–Donnan ...

  8. 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google ... - AOL

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    Meanwhile, as of 2020, around a billion people use Google Maps, launched in 2005, every month. #13 Another Crashed Plane, This Time A Bomber From The Second World War I Think. Found Between Russia ...

  9. List of lucky symbols - Wikipedia

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    A good luck charm is an amulet or other item that is believed to bring good luck. Almost any object can be used as a charm. Coins, horseshoes and buttons are examples, as are small objects given as gifts, due to the favorable associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of tiny items that may be used as good luck charms.