It is the Alpha star in Carina.•Capella - Latin for "she-goat", Capella is the Alpha star in Auriga. Dimmer stars nearby were referred to as Capella's kids.•Castor - The dimmer of the two main stars in Gemini, Castor is Greek for "beaver". Castor is also Alpha Geminorum.•...
The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. noun (n.)...
Constellation names, like the names of stars, come from a variety of sources and each has a different meaning. Old constellations' names usually come from Greek mythology, while the star constellations that were created more recently mostly have names of
Most of them refer to the stars’ positions in constellations. For instance, Deneb, Deneb Algedi, Denebola and Aldhanab, all derived from the Arabic word for “tail,” mark the tails of the celestial Swan (Cygnus), Sea Goat (Capricornus), Lion (Leo), and Crane (Grus, or formerly the...
Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud. doodlesack noun (n.) The Scotch bagpipe. drawback noun (n.) A loss of advantage, or...
11, 2010 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded e2v a contract to develop a CCD imaging sensor for the organization’s Plato (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space science mission. The aim of Plato is to search for transiting planets within the Milky Way galaxy to ...
Zhurong was revered as the earliest fire god in traditional Chinese culture. Tianwen, meaning heavenly questions, is a long poem written by poet Qu Yuan during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) in China, in which he e...
Ch 13. Types of Stars in the Universe Ch 14. Formation & Evolution of Stars Ch 15. Stellar Death & Remnants Ch 16. Formation & Structure of the Milky... Ch 17. Properties & Characteristics of... Ch 18. Relativity in Space & Time Ch 19. Overview of Life in the Universe ...
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