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NGC 2169 [SEP] constellation | NGC 2169
NGC 2169, is an open cluster in the Orion constellation. It was possibly discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and discovered by William Herschel on October 15, 1784. NGC 2169 is at a distance of about 3,600 light years away from Earth. It is nicknamed "The '37' Cluster" due to its striking resem... | human body temperature in degrees Celsius
In science Astronomy.
- Messier object M37, a magnitude 6.0 open cluster in the constellation Auriga
- The New General Catalogue object NGC 37, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
- Kepler-37b is the smallest known planet.
- NGC 2169 is known as the 37 Cluster, due to ... | 12,300 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 2346 [SEP] constellation | NGC 2346
NGC 2346 (also known as the Butterfly Nebula) is a planetary nebula near the celestial equator in the constellation Monoceros. It is bright and conspicuous and has been extensively studied. Among its most remarkable characteristics is its unusually cool central star, which is a spectroscopic binary, and its un... | Butterfly Nebula
Butterfly Nebula may refer to:
- Planetary Nebula M2-9
- NGC 6302, a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius
- NGC 2346
- Little Dumbbell Nebula
- Sadr Region | 12,301 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 2355 [SEP] constellation | NGC 2355
NGC 2355 is an old open cluster in the constellation Gemini.
It is approximately a billion years old and is located about 5,400 light years (ly) from the Solar System and 1,100 ly above the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. At that distance, the angular size of the cluster halo corresponds to a radius of about 23... | NGC 48
The New General Catalogue object NGC 48 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 79.3 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Andromeda.
See also.
- Spiral galaxy
- List of NGC objects (1–1000)
- Andromeda (constellation)
External links.
- http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?48
- htt... | 12,302 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 2655 [SEP] constellation | NGC 2655
NGC 2655 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is at a distance of 60 million light years from Earth. NGC 2655 is a Seyfert galaxy. The galaxy has asymmetric dust lanes in the centre of the galaxy, tidal arms and extended neutral hydrogen gas and may have recently experienced a merger.... | the galaxy is estimated to be 60 Kpc (195,000 ly).
William Herschel discovered NGC 2655 in September 26, 1802 and described it as very bright and considerably large. The galaxy can be glimpsed with a 4-inch telescope under dark skies nearly 10° from the north celestial pole. One supernova has been observed in NGC 2655,... | 12,303 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 3953 [SEP] constellation | NGC 3953
NGC 3953 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy is known to exhibit an inner ring structure that encircles the bar.
Supernovae.
Two supernovae have been identified within NGC 3953: the type Ia supernova SN 2001dp and SN 2006bp.
Environment.
NGC 3953 is a member of the M10... | dp
- SEDS: Spiral Galaxy NGC 3953 | 12,304 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 4 [SEP] constellation | NGC 4
NGC 4 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pisces constellation which was discovered on November 29, 1864 by Albert Marth. | NGC 5634
NGC 5634 is a globular cluster in the constellation Virgo (constellation), located about 82,000 light years (27 kiloparsecs) away. NGC 5634 has an apparent magnitude of about 10 and a diameter of 4 or 5 arcminutes. Its Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class is IV, meaning the cluster shows intermediate rich concen... | 12,305 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 5247 [SEP] constellation | NGC 5247
NGC 5247 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy located some 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It most likely belongs to the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies; the same supercluster that hosts the Milky Way galaxy. This is a grand design spiral galaxy that displays no indications of distortion ... | Masakatsu Aoki
His main interest lies in supernovae of which he has discovered a total of 13, such a SN 1999eu as well as SN 2000db and SN 2000di. In 2016, he discovered the supernova SN 2016C in NGC 5247. In the course of his search, he has also discovered two asteroids during 1996–1997. He has named the asteroid 5862... | 12,306 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 5829 [SEP] constellation | NGC 5829
NGC 5829 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes that is interacting with the irregular galaxy IC 4526. Together, the two form the galaxy pair Arp 42. | NGC 48
The New General Catalogue object NGC 48 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 79.3 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Andromeda.
See also.
- Spiral galaxy
- List of NGC objects (1–1000)
- Andromeda (constellation)
External links.
- http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?48
- htt... | 12,307 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 6217 [SEP] constellation | NGC 6217
NGC 6217 is a barred spiral galaxy located some 67 million light years away, in the constellation Ursa Minor. It can be located with a or larger telescope as an 11th magnitude object about 2.5° east-northeast of the star Zeta Ursae Minoris. The galaxy is inclined by an angle of 33° to the line of sight along a... | billion years ago, and that the galaxy was probably as old as the Milky Way itself.
NGC 6217 is a barred spiral galaxy located some 67 million light-years away, which can be located with a or larger telescope as an 11th magnitude object about 2.5° east-northeast of Zeta Ursae Minoris. It has been characterized as a sta... | 12,308 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 6397 [SEP] constellation | NGC 6397
NGC 6397, also known as Caldwell 86, is a globular cluster in the constellation Ara. It is located about 7,800 light-years from Earth, making it one of the two nearest globular clusters to Earth (the other one being Messier 4). The cluster contains around 400,000 stars, and can be seen with the naked eye under... | within a globular cluster were not resolved until Charles Messier observed M 4 in 1764. The first eight globular clusters discovered are shown in the table. Subsequently, Abbé Lacaille would list NGC 104, NGC 4833, M 55, M 69, and NGC 6397 in his 1751–1752 catalogue.
When William Herschel began his comprehensive survey... | 12,309 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 6709 [SEP] constellation | NGC 6709
NGC 6709 is an open cluster in the constellation Aquila.
References.
- Simbad
- webda | about 3000 light-years from Earth. It has an overall magnitude of 6.7 and is about 9100 light-years from Earth. NGC 6709 appears in a rich Milky Way star field and is classified as a Shapley class d and Trumpler class III 2 m cluster. These designations mean that it does not have many stars, is loose, does not show gre... | 12,310 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 94 [SEP] constellation | NGC 94
NGC 94 (PGC 1423) is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan in 1884. This object is extremely faint and small. A little above the galaxy is NGC 96. NGC 94 is about 260 million light-years away and 50,000 light-years across. | NGC 5078
NGC 5078 is a spiral galaxy in the Hydra constellation, approximately 94 million light-years away from Earth. It has a diameter of 127,000 light-years and is probably a member of the NGC 5061 group. The dust lane of NGC 5078 is warped, probably by interaction with the nearby galaxy IC 879, which is itself dist... | 12,311 | zeroshot-train |
PSR B0329+54 [SEP] constellation | PSR B0329+54
PSR B0329+54 is a pulsar approximately 3,460 light-years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis. It completes one rotation every 0.71452 seconds and is approximately 5 million years old.
The emissions of this pulsar and the Vela Pulsar were converted into audible sound by the French composer Gérard Gr... | . The pulsar is extremely hot, with a surface temperature of up to around 28,856 K. It formed about one to three billion years ago as the result of a white dwarf transforming into a rapidly spinning neutron star during the process of two white dwarfs merging with each other.
The discovery stimulated a search for planet... | 12,312 | zeroshot-train |
PSR B1257+12 A [SEP] constellation | PSR B1257+12 A
PSR B1257+12 b, alternatively designated PSR B1257+12 A, also named Draugr, is an extrasolar planet approximately 2,300 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The planet is the innermost object orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, making it a pulsar planet in the dead stellar system. It is about tw... | , with the nearest expected to be within 12 light-years distance from Earth. Assuming 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, that would be 11 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, rising to 40 billion if red dwarfs are included. The rogue planets in the Milky Way possibly number in the trilli... | 12,313 | zeroshot-train |
Seyfert's Sextet [SEP] constellation | Seyfert's Sextet
Seyfert's Sextet is a group of galaxies about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The group appears to contain six members, but one of the galaxies is a background object and another "galaxy" is actually a separated part of one of the other galaxies. The gravitational interaction... | NGC 6027
NGC 6027 is a lenticular galaxy that is the brightest member of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies. Édouard Stephan discovered the galaxy in 1882.
See also.
- NGC 6027a
- NGC 6027b
- NGC 6027c
- NGC 6027d
- NGC 6027e
- Seyfert's Sextet | 12,314 | zeroshot-train |
Sher 25 [SEP] constellation | Sher 25
Sher 25 is a blue supergiant star in the constellation Carina, located approximately 25,000 light years from the Sun in the H II region NGC 3603 of the Milky Way. It is a spectral type B1Iab star with an apparent magnitude of 12.2. Its initial main sequence mass is calculated at 60 times the mass of our Sun, bu... | 66, 122, 131, 168, 170, 173, 234, 282.
- Dunne, Aidan. 2008. Rare encounter with sculpture in the spotlight. Irish Times, 6 Feb.
- Kenny, Padraig. 2008. The French Connection. Sunday Tribune, 28 Sep p3.
- Dunne, Aidan, 2005. The Art of Geometry. Irish Times, 23 May, p. 10.
- Woods, Suzanne and Marshall, Catherine. 2005... | 12,315 | zeroshot-train |
Theta Coronae Australis [SEP] constellation | Theta Coronae Australis
Theta Coronae Australis, Latinized from θ Coronae Australis, is a star located in the constellation Corona Australis. Theta Coronae Australis is also known as HR 6951, and HD 170845. Parallax measurements by Hipparcos put it at a distance of roughly 560 light-years, or 171 parsecs, away from the... | -approved Star Names.
In Chinese, (), meaning "River Turtle", refers to an asterism consisting of Alpha Coronae Australis, Alpha Telescopii, Eta¹ Coronae Australis, Zeta Coronae Australis, Delta Coronae Australis, Beta Coronae Australis, Gamma Coronae Australis, Epsilon Coronae Australis, HD 175362, Kappa² Coronae Aust... | 12,316 | zeroshot-train |
Theta Ophiuchi [SEP] constellation | Theta Ophiuchi
Theta Ophiuchi (θ Oph, θ Ophiuchi) is a multiple star system in the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus. It lies on the "right foot" of the serpent-bearer, just southwest of Kepler's Star, the nova of 1604. According to Richard H. Allen's, "" (1899), θ Oph together with ξ Oph formed the Sogdian "Wajrik... | , consisting of Theta Serpentis, Delta Herculis, Lambda Herculis, Mu Herculis, Omicron Herculis, 112 Herculis, Zeta Aquilae, Eta Serpentis, Nu Ophiuchi, Xi Serpentis and Eta Ophiuchi. Consequently, the Chinese name for Theta Serpentis itself is (, ), representing the state Xu (徐).
Properties.
Both Theta¹ Serpentis and ... | 12,317 | zeroshot-train |
WISEPA J184124.74+700038.0 [SEP] constellation | WISEPA J184124.74+700038.0
WISEPA J184124.74+700038.0 (designation is abbreviated to WISE 1841+7000) is a binary system of brown dwarfs of spectral classes T5 + T5, located in constellation Draco at approximately 131 light-years from Earth. It is notable for being one of the first known binary brown dwarf systems.
Disc... | WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9
WISE 1738+2732 (full designation WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Hercules at 25.5 light-years from Earth.
History of observations.
History of observations Discovery.
WISE 1738+2732 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-... | 12,318 | zeroshot-train |
54 Piscium b [SEP] constellation | 54 Piscium b
54 Piscium b (HD 3651 b), occasionally catalogued as 54 Piscium Ab in order to differentiate from the brown dwarf in the system, is an extrasolar planet approximately 36 light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. The planet was discovered orbiting the orange dwarf star 54 Piscium. The planet's minimu... | Preliminary astrometric measurements suggested that the orbital inclination is 170.3°, yielding an object mass of 38 times that of Jupiter, which would make it a brown dwarf. However, subsequent analysis indicates that the precision of the measurements used to derive the astrometric orbit is insufficient to constrain t... | 12,319 | zeroshot-train |
55 Cancri f [SEP] constellation | 55 Cancri f
55 Cancri f (abbreviated 55 Cnc f), also designated Rho Cancri f and formally named Harriot , is an extrasolar planet approximately 41 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cancer (the Crab). 55 Cancri f is the fourth known planet (in order of distance) from the star 55 Cancri and the first pl... | Table of stars with Flamsteed designations
This table lists those stars/objects which have Flamsteed designations by the constellation in which those stars/objects lie. The name given is that of the article if it does not reflect the Flamsteed designation. If the star has a Greek-letter Bayer designation this is used i... | 12,320 | zeroshot-train |
9 Boötis [SEP] constellation | 9 Boötis
9 Boötis is a single, variable star in the northern constellation of Boötes, located around 630 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of 5.02. This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velo... | Quadrans Muralis" and shrank the constellation a little in his 1801 "Uranographia" star atlas, to avoid it clashing with neighboring constellations.
In 1922, Quadrans Muralis was omitted when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formalised its list of officially recognized constellations.
Notable features.
- The ... | 12,321 | zeroshot-train |
BL Crucis [SEP] constellation | BL Crucis
BL Crucis is a red giant and a semiregular variable in the constellation of Crux. It has periods with three frequencies of 30.7, 42.3 and 43.6 days. It is 480 ± 10 light-years distant from Earth.
External links.
- David H. Levy, "Observing variable stars : a guide for the beginner"
- General Catalogue of Vari... | Resistance with radio operators. On 1 April he was parachuted back into France, again onto Philippe's land, and restarted his Paris activities under the new codename "Sylvain", but was arrested on 25 April. In prison he was beaten by Georges Delfanne (alias Christian Masuy), then handed over to Hugo Bleicher of the Abw... | 12,322 | zeroshot-train |
Chi Capricorni [SEP] constellation | Chi Capricorni
Chi Capricorni, Latinized from χ Capricorni, is a star in the southern constellation of Capricornus. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 18.14 mas as seen from the Earth, the star is located about 180 light years from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.28.
... | turning his greatest weakness - desire - into a motivating factor for practice. Fragments of a drama called Śāriputraprakaraṇa () are also extant, and these may be some of the oldest, perhaps even the oldest example of Sanskrit drama. Aśvaghoṣa's verses are often simple yet very suggestive, casting key Buddhist teachin... | 12,323 | zeroshot-train |
Delta Trianguli Australis [SEP] constellation | Delta Trianguli Australis
Delta Trianguli Australis (δ TrA, δ Trianguli Australis) is a single, yellow-hued star in the constellation Triangulum Australe. It is approximately 606 light years (182 parsecs) from Earth.
This is a G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G5II and an apparent magnitude of +3.86. I... | stars their Bayer designations in 1756.
Alpha Trianguli Australis, known as Atria, is a second-magnitude orange giant and the brightest star in the constellation, as well as the 42nd-brightest star in the night sky. Completing the triangle are the two white main sequence stars Beta and Gamma Trianguli Australis. Althou... | 12,324 | zeroshot-train |
E Centauri [SEP] constellation | E Centauri
E Centauri (E Cen) is a star in the constellation Centaurus. It is a blue-white B-type main sequence dwarf with an apparent magnitude of +5.34 and is approximately 600 light years from Earth. | Wolf 1061c
Wolf 1061c or WL 1061c is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Wolf 1061 in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 13.8 light years from Earth, making it the fifth closest known, potentially habitable, and confirmed exoplanet to Earth (after Proxima Centauri b, Ross 128 b, Luyten... | 12,325 | zeroshot-train |
Epsilon Apodis [SEP] constellation | Epsilon Apodis
Epsilon Apodis, Latinized from ε Apodis, is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Apus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.06, which is bright enough to be viewed from dark suburban skies. Based upon parallax measurements, it is at a distance of roughly from ... | variable star and its brightness varies between magnitudes 4.99 and 5.04.
Naming.
In Chinese caused by adaptation of the European southern hemisphere constellations into the Chinese system, (), meaning "Exotic Bird", refers to an asterism consisting of ε Apodis, ζ Apodis, ι Apodis, β Apodis, γ Apodis, δ Octantis, δ Apo... | 12,326 | zeroshot-train |
Eta Herculis [SEP] constellation | Eta Herculis
Eta Herculis (η Her, η Herculis) is a fourth-magnitude star in the constellation Hercules.
Properties.
Eta Herculis is a G-Type star. With a stellar classification G7.5IIIb, it is yet considerably larger having a mass that is 2.3 times solar and a radius 9.8 times. Though it only shines with an apparent ma... | Eta Reticuli
Eta Reticuli (Eta Ret, η Reticuli, η Ret) is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Reticulum. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.22, it is faintly visible to the naked eye on a dark night. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.48 mas, it is located at a distance of roughly 385 light years... | 12,327 | zeroshot-train |
Gamma Cephei Ab [SEP] constellation | Gamma Cephei Ab
Gamma Cephei Ab (abbreviated γ Cephei Ab, γ Cep Ab), formally named Tadmor , is an exoplanet approximately 45 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus (the King). The planet was confirmed to be in orbit around Gamma Cephei A in 2002, but was first suspected to exist around 1988 (making this plan... | was finally confirmed. The team of astronomers (including William D. Cochran, Artie P. Hatzes, et al.) at the Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long-suspected planet Gamma Cephei Ab with a minimum mass of 1.59 M (1.59 times that of Jupiter). The parameters were l... | 12,328 | zeroshot-train |
Gliese 3634 [SEP] constellation | Gliese 3634
Gliese 3634 (Often shortened to GJ 3634) is a red dwarf star in the Hydra constellation. One planet has been discovered in its orbit, Gliese 3634 b. GJ 3634 is under half the mass and size of the Sun, and is estimated to be at least a billion years younger, and lies near to Earth, with a distance of 19.8 pa... | of .
Characteristics Host star.
Gliese 3634 is a M-class dwarf star, meaning that it is small, emits reddish light, and has a relatively low temperature for a star. The star is 0.45 times the mass of and 0.43 times the radius of the Sun. Gliese 3634 is 0.020 times as luminous as the Sun, meaning that it radiates about ... | 12,329 | zeroshot-train |
HAT-P-6 [SEP] constellation | HAT-P-6
HAT-P-6 is a star in the constellation Andromeda, located approximately 910 light years or 280 parsecs away from the Earth. It is an F-type star, implying that it is hotter and more massive than our Sun. The apparent magnitude of the star is +10.54, which means that it can only be visible through the telescope.... | HAT-P-5b
HAT-P-5b is a transiting extrasolar planet located approximately 1000 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra, orbiting the star HAT-P-5. It is a hot Jupiter with a mass 6% greater than Jupiter and a radius 26% greater than Jupiter, corresponding to a density of 0.66 g/cm, which is less than water. This ... | 12,330 | zeroshot-train |
HD 117207 [SEP] constellation | HD 117207
HD 117207 is a star located approximately 108 light years away in the constellation Centaurus. It is a yellow dwarf or subgiant star of mass 7% greater than our Sun. It has apparent magnitude 7.26 which is not visible to the naked eye and has absolute magnitude of 4.67, which is visible to the naked eye if it... | HD 117207 b
HD 117207 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting at 3.79 astronomical units taking about 2597 days to complete its orbit around HD 117207. Its orbit is moderate in eccentricity. This planet was announced in January 2005 by Marcy in Keck Observatory. The planet has at least 1.88 Jupiter masses. | 12,331 | zeroshot-train |
HD 16175 [SEP] constellation | HD 16175
HD 16175 is a 7th magnitude G-type star with temperature about 6000 K located approximately 196 light-years away in the Andromeda constellation. This star is only visible through binoculars or better equipment; it is also 3.3 times more luminous, is 1.34 times more massive, and has a radius 1.66 times bigger t... | It orbits at a distance of 2.7 astronomical units or 400 gigameters and takes 1,208 days or 3.307 years to orbit around Kappa Coronae Borealis.
See also.
- HD 16175 b
- HD 167042 b
- Rho Coronae Borealis b | 12,332 | zeroshot-train |
HD 24496 Ab [SEP] constellation | HD 24496 Ab
HD 24496 Ab, or simply HD 24496 b, (also known as HIP 18267 b) is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type star HD 24496 A, located approximately 66.5 light years away in the constellation Taurus. This is a wide-orbiting saturnian planet discovered on November 13, 2009. The orbital distance for this pla... | November 13, 2009.
See also.
Other planets that were discovered or confirmed on November 13, 2009:
- HD 34445 b
- HD 126614 Ab
- HD 24496 Ab
- HD 13931 b
- QS Virginis b
Related giant planets around red dwarfs:
- HIP 79431 b
- Gliese 849 b
- Gliese 876 b
- Gliese 876 c
- Gliese 317 b
- Gliese 832 b | 12,333 | zeroshot-train |
HD 45350 b [SEP] constellation | HD 45350 b
HD 45350 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 160 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga. It has a minimum mass about 1.79 times that of Jupiter. The mean distance of the planet from the star is more than the distance between Mars and the Sun, but the eccentricity of the orbit is nothing ... | eye. It is of similar size to the Sun, at 1.1 solar masses and 1.21 solar radii. The planet, with a mass of 3.83 Jupiter masses, orbits with a semi-major axis of 0.83 AU and a period of 263.1 days. HD 45350 has one planet as well. HD 45350 b was discovered through radial velocity measurements in 2004. It has a mass of ... | 12,334 | zeroshot-train |
HD 76728 [SEP] constellation | HD 76728
HD 76728, also called c Carinae (c Car), is a star in the constellation Carina. It is a blue-white B-type bright giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.84 and is approximately 312 light years from Earth. This star has five times the radius of the Sun. | Battery D was reinforced to its authorized wartime strength.
Detachments from Btry A formed Btry 80-X in December 1941; a second detachment helped form the 804th CA (HD) Btry (Sep). Btry F at Sand Is. was designated the 807th CA (HD) Btry (Sep), while a second detachment helped organize the 715th CA (HD) Btry (Sep) 10-... | 12,335 | zeroshot-train |
HD 8535 [SEP] constellation | HD 8535
HD 8535 is an 8th magnitude G-type main sequence star located approximately 171 light years away in the constellation Phoenix. It is larger, hotter, brighter, and has a higher metallicity than the Sun. In 2009, a gas giant was found in orbit around the star.
See also.
- List of extrasolar planets | Battery D was reinforced to its authorized wartime strength.
Detachments from Btry A formed Btry 80-X in December 1941; a second detachment helped form the 804th CA (HD) Btry (Sep). Btry F at Sand Is. was designated the 807th CA (HD) Btry (Sep), while a second detachment helped organize the 715th CA (HD) Btry (Sep) 10-... | 12,336 | zeroshot-train |
HD 88133 [SEP] constellation | HD 88133
HD 88133 is an 8th magnitude star in the constellation of Leo. It is classified as a yellow subgiant star (spectral type G5IV). It is slightly more massive than our Sun, cooler and more luminous. As a subgiant, it has left the main sequence and started to evolve towards red gianthood. Located at a distance of ... | HD 88133 b
HD 88133 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 88133. It is probably less massive than Jupiter and even Saturn. It orbits the star in a very tight orbit, completing one revolution around the star in every three and half days or so. Despite the relatively large radius of the star (about 2 times Solar... | 12,337 | zeroshot-train |
HD 89307 [SEP] constellation | HD 89307
HD 89307 is a yellow main-sequence star located approximately 108 light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The apparent magnitude is 7.06. The mass of the star is identical in value to the Sun.
Planetary system.
In December 2004, it was found to have a long-period 1.78 M giant planet in orbit around it.
S... | Battery D was reinforced to its authorized wartime strength.
Detachments from Btry A formed Btry 80-X in December 1941; a second detachment helped form the 804th CA (HD) Btry (Sep). Btry F at Sand Is. was designated the 807th CA (HD) Btry (Sep), while a second detachment helped organize the 715th CA (HD) Btry (Sep) 10-... | 12,338 | zeroshot-train |
Iota Sagittarii [SEP] constellation | Iota Sagittarii
Iota Sagittarii (Iota Sgr, ι Sagittarii, ι Sgr) is a star in the zodiac constellation of Sagittarius. With an apparent visual magnitude of +4.118, it is bright enough to be viewed with the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 17.94 mas as seen from Earth, this star is located 182 light year... | 54 BC), mother of Julius Caesar
- Aurelia Paulina, 2nd century noblewoman
- Aurelia of Strasbourg, 4th century saint
- Aurelia of Regensburg (died 1027), Roman Catholic saint
Modern (from 20th-century).
- Aurelia Arkotxa (born 1953), Spanish writer
- Aurelia Brădeanu (born 1979), Romanian handballer
- Aurelia E. Brazea... | 12,339 | zeroshot-train |
Kepler-4 [SEP] constellation | Kepler-4
Kepler-4 is a sunlike star located about 1610 light-years away in the constellation Draco. It is in the field of view of the Kepler Mission, a NASA operation purposed with finding Earth-like planets. Kepler-4b, a Neptune-sized planet that orbits extremely close to its star, was discovered in its orbit and made... | Kepler-33b
Kepler-33b is an extrasolar planet orbiting Kepler-33 in the constellation Cygnus. It is one of five planets orbiting Kepler-33.
Discovery.
Kepler-33b was, along with twenty-six other planets in eleven different planetary systems, confirmed to be a planet on January 26, 2012.
The Kepler-33 system.
Kepler-33b... | 12,340 | zeroshot-train |
Kepler-45 [SEP] constellation | Kepler-45
Kepler-45, formerly known as KOI-254, is a star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. It is located at the celestial coordinates: right ascension , declination . With an apparent visual magnitude of 16.88, this star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. | Kepler-9b
Kepler-9b is one of the first planets discovered outside the solar system (exoplanets) by NASA's Kepler Mission. It revolves around the star Kepler-9 within the constellation Lyra. Kepler-9b is the largest of three planets detected in the Kepler system by transit method; its mass is roughly half that of the p... | 12,341 | zeroshot-train |
Markarian's Chain [SEP] constellation | Markarian's Chain
Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were discovered by William Herschel a... | 's Group (PGC 47203) in Centaurus.
- Lord Rosse's Nebula is the Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici (Messier 51).
- Lower's Nebula is Sharpless 2-261 (part of Cederblad 64) in Orion.
- Markarian's Chain is a chain of galaxies in Coma Berenices (Messier 86 to 88).
- Mayall's Object is a cigar-shaped galaxy with ring, in ... | 12,342 | zeroshot-train |
Messier 5 [SEP] constellation | Messier 5
Messier 5 or M5 (also designated NGC 5904) is a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1702.
Discovery and visibility.
M5 is, under extremely good conditions, just visible to the naked eye as a faint "star" near the star 5 Serpentis. Binoculars or small telescop... | ) within its borders 5° to 12° west of ε Vir (Vindemiatrix), this constellation is especially rich in galaxies.
Some examples are Messier 49 (elliptical), Messier 58 (spiral), Messier 59 (elliptical), Messier 60 (elliptical), Messier 61 (spiral), Messier 84 (lenticular), Messier 86 (lenticular), Messier 87 (elliptical ... | 12,343 | zeroshot-train |
Mystic Mountain [SEP] constellation | Mystic Mountain
Mystic Mountain is a photograph and a term for a region in the Carina Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument. The new view celebrated the telescope's 20th anniversary ... | acquisition to Boston Generating. Boston Generating ended up declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 and was sold to Constellation Energy. Constellation Energy and Exelon merged in March 2012, returning ownership to Exelon. Exelon continues to operate the station.
Recently, the Toxics Action Center has targeted the Mys... | 12,344 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 1084 [SEP] constellation | NGC 1084
NGC 1084 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in constellation Eridanus. It is at a distance of about 65 million light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by William Herschel on 10 January 1785. The galaxy has multiple spiral arms, which are not well defined. It belongs in the same group with NGC 988, NGC 991, NG... | which is also known as NGC 988 group),which also includes the elliptical galaxy NGC 1052, NGC 991, NGC 1022, NGC 1035, NGC 1042, NGC 1047, NGC 1051, NGC 1084, NGC 1110. It belongs in the same galaxy cloud as Messier 77.
One supernova has been discovered in NGC 988, SN 2017gmr, a Type II supernova discovered on 4 Septem... | 12,345 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 1847 [SEP] constellation | NGC 1847
NGC 1847 is a young, massive star cluster in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. It was discovered in 1835 by John Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflecting telescope. | NGC 2452
NGC 2452 is a planetary nebula located in the southern constellation of Puppis. NGC 2452 was discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1847. | 12,346 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 4361 [SEP] constellation | NGC 4361
NGC 4361 is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Corvus. It is included in the Astronomical League's Herschel 400 Observing Program. | conceptualization of which, as Karlsruhe Accurate Arithmetic, had been under development for decades, was implemented as an optional feature on the 4361.
The 4361 was withdrawn Feb. 17, 1987.
IBM 4381.
The IBM 4381 had a greater longevity than any of the above systems.br
Model Groups 1 & 2 were announced Sep 15, 1983 a... | 12,347 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 5087 [SEP] constellation | NGC 5087
NGC 5087 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. | NGC 5084 to be between 6 x 10 and 1 x 10 , which was at that time the highest mass ever derived for a disk galaxy. They estimated the optical diameter of NGC 5084 to be 74 kpc (241 Kly).
Nearby galaxies.
NGC 5084 is the largest galaxy in the NGC 5084 group, which also includes NGC 5087 and NGC 5134 and some smaller gal... | 12,348 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 54 [SEP] constellation | NGC 54
NGC 54 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1886, and he defined it as "very faint, pretty small, round." The galaxy is 90,000 light years in diameter, making it slightly smaller than the Milky Way.
See also.
- Spiral galaxy
- List of NGC objec... | NGC 4623
NGC 4623 is an edge-on lenticular or elliptical galaxy located about 54 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. NGC 4623 is classified as an E7, a rare type of "late" elliptical that represents the first stage of transition into a lenticular galaxy. NGC 4623 was discovered by astronomer William... | 12,349 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 6204 [SEP] constellation | NGC 6204
NGC 6204 is an open cluster in the constellation Ara, lying close to the galactic equator. It is 3,540 ly (1,085 pc) distant from Earth. The cluster was discovered on 13 May 1826 by British astronomer James Dunlop.
Further reading.
- Carraro, Giovanni; Munari, Ulisse (2004): "A multicolour CCD photometric stud... | the size of the full Moon. It is approximately 4200 light-years from Earth. It has one bright member, a double star with a blue-white hued primary of magnitude 5.6 and a secondary of magnitude 6.9. NGC 6193 is surrounded by NGC 6188, a faint nebula only normally visible in long-exposure photographs.
- NGC 6200
- NGC 62... | 12,350 | zeroshot-train |
NGC 6790 [SEP] constellation | NGC 6790
NGC 6790 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquila.
See also.
- List of NGC objects
External links.
- The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Hubble picture and information on NGC 6790 | NGC 48
The New General Catalogue object NGC 48 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 79.3 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Andromeda.
See also.
- Spiral galaxy
- List of NGC objects (1–1000)
- Andromeda (constellation)
External links.
- http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?48
- htt... | 12,351 | zeroshot-train |
PSR B0943+10 [SEP] constellation | PSR B0943+10
PSR B0943+10 is a pulsar 2,000 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Leo.
Description.
The pulsar is estimated to be 5 million years old, which is relatively old for a pulsar. It has a rotational period of 1.1 seconds and emits both radio waves and X-rays.
Ongoing research at the... | . The pulsar is extremely hot, with a surface temperature of up to around 28,856 K. It formed about one to three billion years ago as the result of a white dwarf transforming into a rapidly spinning neutron star during the process of two white dwarfs merging with each other.
The discovery stimulated a search for planet... | 12,352 | zeroshot-train |
PSR J0108-1431 [SEP] constellation | PSR J0108−1431
PSR J0108−1431 is a solitary pulsar located at a distance of about 130 parsecs (424 light-years) in the constellation Cetus. This pulsar was discovered in 1994 during the Parkes Southern Pulsar Survey.
It is considered a very old pulsar with an estimated age of 166 million years and a rotation period of... | 400 km/s) to the newly formed neutron star.
Some of the closest known neutron stars are RX J1856.5−3754, which is about 400 light-years from Earth, and PSR J0108−1431 at about 424 light years. RX J1856.5-3754 is a member of a close group of neutron stars called The Magnificent Seven. Another nearby neutron star that wa... | 12,353 | zeroshot-train |
SN 1572 [SEP] constellation | SN 1572
SN 1572 ("Tycho's Supernova", "Tycho's Nova"), or B Cassiopeiae (B Cas), was a supernova of Type Ia in the constellation Cassiopeia, one of eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records. It appeared in early November 1572 and was independently discovered by many individuals.
The remnant of the... | Catalogue or Tycho-2 Catalogue of stars
- SN 1572, a supernova remnant, often called Tycho's supernova
- Tycho G, the companion star of SN 1572
- 1677 Tycho Brahe, an asteroid
Fiction.
- Tycho, a desert ranger henchman from the computer game "Fallout"
- Tycho, a shipboard AI in the computer game "Marathon"
- Tycho Brah... | 12,354 | zeroshot-train |
SN 2005bc [SEP] constellation | SN 2005bc
SN 2005bc was a Type Ia supernova occurring in the Barred spiral galaxy NGC 5698 in the constellation of Boötes. SN 2005bc was discovered on 2 April 2005 by LOSS and independently by Tim Puckett and L. Cox.
Discovery.
The supernova was at magnitude 16.4 at discovery, and quickly rose to a peak magnitude of ar... | Iax have low luminosities for their light-curve shape. The Puckett Observatory Supernova Search has discovered 7 of them: 2008ha, 2008ae, 2007J, 2006hn, 2005cc, 2003gq, 2002bp.
- The POSS search team made a rare discovery of two supernovae in one galaxy.
- Possible quasar in Bootes. - Variable Object in Bootes
- Catacl... | 12,355 | zeroshot-train |
Theta Indi [SEP] constellation | Theta Indi
Theta Indi (θ Ind) is a binary star in the constellation Indus. Its apparent magnitude is 4.40 and it is approximately 98.8 light years away based on parallax. The smaller companion, B, has a spectral type of G0V (yellow main-sequence) and an apparent magnitude of 7.18 at a separation of 6.71". Recent observ... | , vocals
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VV Cephei [SEP] constellation | VV Cephei
VV Cephei, also known as HD 208816, is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 5,000 light years from Earth. It is both a B[e] star and shell star.
VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary with the second longest known period. A red supergiant fills its Roche lobe when clos... | in this constellation, Mu Cephei and VV Cephei A.
V419 Cephei has a mass 16.6 solar masses, above the limit beyond which stars end their lives as supernovae. The life of such massive stars is very short. Despite its advanced evolutionary state, V419 Cephei is only 10 million years old.
Billed as an irregular variable s... | 12,357 | zeroshot-train |
Zeta Doradus [SEP] constellation | . With an apparent magnitude of 4.82, it is approximately the eight brightest star in the constellation of Dorado.
Though it has been known that Zeta Doradus B is a nearby star since at least the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, the connection that it is a common proper motion companion to Zeta Doradus A was only made... | Zeta Doradus
Zeta Doradus (ζ Dor) is a young star system that lies approximately 38 light-years away. The system consists of two widely separated stars, with the primary being bright enough to be observed with the naked eye but the secondary being much a much fainter star that requires telescopic equipment to be observ... | 12,358 | zeroshot-train |
Amadok Point [SEP] continent | Amadok Point
Amadok Point (Nos Amadok \'nos a-ma-'dok\) is a point on the south coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica which projects 400 m into the Bransfield Strait. The point was named after the Thracian King Amadokos, 415-384 BC. It is snow-free in the summer.
Location.
Amadok Point is located at , which is 2 km no... | Amadocus, Thracian King, the Amadok Point was named after him
- Teres I, Thracian King who united many tribes of Thrace under the banner of the Odrysian state
- Sitalces, King of the Odrysian state; an ally of the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War
- Burebista, King of Dacia
- Decebalus, King of Dacia
- Maximinus T... | 12,359 | zeroshot-train |
Asparuh Peak [SEP] continent | Asparuh Peak
Asparuh Peak (Asparuhov Vrah \as-pa-'ru-hov 'vr&h\) is a peak situated on Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak rises to 760m in Bowles Ridge and is linked to the Melnik Ridge by the 575m high Yankov Gap. It was named after Khan Asparuh of Bulgaria, 668-700 AD, who incorporated by treaty the territory be... | - Arsela Peak, Sentinel Range
- Artanes Bay, Oscar II Coast
- Arzos Peak, Sentinel Range
- Asemus Beach, Robert Island
- Asen Peak, Livingston Island
- Asparuh Peak, Livingston Island
- Atanasoff Nunatak, Livingston Island
- Atanasov Ridge, Alexander Island
- Atanasova Point, Livingston Island
- Atlantic Club Ridge, Li... | 12,360 | zeroshot-train |
Bakutis Coast [SEP] continent | Bakutis Coast
The Bakutis Coast is that part of the coast of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, extending from a point opposite eastern Dean Island, at , to Cape Herlacher, or between Hobbs Coast in the west and Walgreen Coast in the east. It stretches between 127°05'W and 114°12'W. The coast in this area is bounded by ... | Cape Dart
Cape Dart () is a cape at the foot of Mount Siple on the north coast of Siple Island, just southward of Lauff Island off the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service in a flight from West Base, and was named for Justin Whitlock Dart w... | 12,361 | zeroshot-train |
Ballester Point [SEP] continent | Ballester Point
Ballester Point (, ‘Nos Ballester’ \'nos ba-'les-ter\) is a point forming the south side of the entrance to Johnsons Dock and the northeast side of the entrance to Española Cove in Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sea... | de la Iglesia (14 Feb 1889 – death 8 Dec 1922)
- Manuel Lago y González (24 July 1923 – death 18 March 1925)
- Julián de Diego y García Alcolea (8 Oct 1925 – death 16 Jan 1927)
- Zacarías Martínez y Núñez, O.S.A. (2 Dec 1927 – death 6 Sep 1933)
- Tomás Muniz Pablos (13 August 1935 – death 15 March 1948)
- Carmelo Balle... | 12,362 | zeroshot-train |
Barber Glacier [SEP] continent | Barber Glacier
Barber Glacier () is a glacier rising just east of Mount Bruce in the Bowers Mountains and flowing north to the coast between Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont and Rosenau Head, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The glacier was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960... | Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase.
During this last glacial period there were alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat. Within the last glacial period the Last Glacial Maximum was approximately 22,000 years ago. While the general pattern of... | 12,363 | zeroshot-train |
Belgun Peak [SEP] continent | Belgun Peak
Belgun Peak (, ‘Vrah Belgun’ \'vr&h bel-'gun\) is the ice-covered peak with precipitous, partly ice-free west slopes, rising to 1205 m in the northwest extremity of Trakiya Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the east side of Zlidol Gate, surmounting the head of Russel... | Belgun Peak is located at , which is 890 m northwest of Antonov Peak, 4.6 km northeast of Skoparnik Bluff, 1.49 km east-northeast of Lepitsa Peak, 3.56 km east of Mount Schuyler on Detroit Plateau, 3.41 km southeast of Sirius Knoll and 5.2 km west-southwest of Mount Canicula. German-British mapping in 1996.
Maps.
- Tri... | 12,364 | zeroshot-train |
Bender Glacier [SEP] continent | Bender Glacier
Bender Glacier () is a glacier that flows from Mount Atkinson and Mount Craddock southwards between Chaplin Peak and Krusha Peak, and joins Nimitz Glacier just south of Gilbert Spur in the southern Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. Receiving ice influx from its left tributaries Severingh... | . "A Grammar of Northern and Southern Gumuz", doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon.
- Lionel Bender, 1983. "Proto-Koman phonology and lexicon", "Afrika und Übersee" 66: 259-297.
- Lionel Bender, 1991. "Subclassification of Nilo-Saharan". In M. Lionel Bender, ed., Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo-Saharan Linguistic... | 12,365 | zeroshot-train |
Blood Falls [SEP] continent | Blood Falls
Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Iron-rich hypersaline water sporadically emerges from small fis... | released Sept 2016, covers Allied Forces on the German Border, Sep 1944 – Feb 1945 and The Ardennes Offensive: German Forces in Lorraine and the Ardennes, Sep 1944 – Feb 1945. Replaces Blood, Guts, and Glory, Devil’s Charge and Nuts.
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Bogdan Ridge [SEP] continent | Bogdan Ridge
Bogdan Ridge (Rid Bogdan \'rid 'bog-dan\) is a conspicuous rocky ridge of elevation 440 m forming the northeast extremity of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ridge extends 1.3 km westwards from Santa Cruz Point and surmounts Gruev Cove to the south.
The featu... | All Guards Rocket Artillery Divisions were disbanded between August and September 1945.
- 1st Guards Rocket Krasnoselsk Red Banner Artillery Division – Formed Sep 1942 at Moscow Military District; with ? Front Jan 1945.
- 2nd Guards Rocket Gorodokskaya Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevskiy Artillery Division – Formed S... | 12,367 | zeroshot-train |
Canso Rocks [SEP] continent | Canso Rocks
The Canso Rocks () are two rocks lying west of Bone Bay, northwest of Notter Point on Belitsa Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the Canso, one of the types of aircraft used by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial ... | - Jul 45)
- No. 9 Squadron RCAF Canso A (Apr 43 - Aug 44); Catalina I/IB/IVA (Feb 44 - Aug 44)
- No. 120 Squadron RCAF Canso A (Apr 43 - Sep 43); Catalina IVA (Sep 43 - Apr 44)
The Republic of China Air Force operates PBY-5A as search and rescue (SAR) plane from 1952 to 1954.
At least one of these PBY-5A were later tra... | 12,368 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Crozier [SEP] continent | Cape Crozier
Cape Crozier is the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 during James Clark Ross's expedition of 1839 to 1843 with HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror", and was named after Francis Crozier, captain of HMS Terror. The extinct volcano Mount Terror, also named during the Ross e... | . Crozier joined Clark Ross as second-in-command of HMS "Cove" in 1835, to assist in the search for 12 lost British whaling ships in the Arctic. Crozier was appointed to the rank of commander in 1837.
Naval service Ross expedition.
In 1839, Crozier again joined Sir James Clark Ross on the Ross expedition, as second-in-... | 12,369 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Denison [SEP] continent | Cape Denison
Cape Denison is a rocky point at the head of Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Sir Hugh Denison of Sydney, a patron of the expedition. The cape was the site of the expedition's main base. Calle... | sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored.
The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including a visit to the South Magnetic Pole.
Mawson raised the necessary funds in a year, from British and Australian gov... | 12,370 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Elliott [SEP] continent | Cape Elliott
Cape Elliott () is an ice-covered cape marking the northern extremity of the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It fronts on Shackleton Ice Shelf, southwest of Bowman Island. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) and named by the Advisory Committee on... | part of the continent and unable to find gold and silver, wrote ("nothing here" in Portuguese), or ("Cape Nothing" in Spanish) on that part of their maps. An alternative explanation favoured by philologist Marshall Elliott linked the name to the Spanish word "cañada", meaning "glen" or "valley".
The earliest iterations... | 12,371 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Framnes [SEP] continent | Cape Framnes
Cape Framnes () is a cape which forms the northeast end of Jason Peninsula, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and named in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under C.A. Larsen. The name is probably descriptive. Larsen reported that he gave the name Framnes (forward point) to the p... | Scullin Monolith and Cape Bruce), and later became Australian Antarctic Territory.
Some notable geographic features in the region include the Framnes Mountains, which form the dramatic backdrop to Mawson Station. The Framnes Mountains were named in the 1930s by Norwegian explorers financed by the shipowner and whaling ... | 12,372 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Granat [SEP] continent | Cape Granat
Cape Granat () is a cape in the western part of the Thala Hills, northeast of Campbell Glacier, on the coast of Enderby Land, Antarctica. Molodezhnaya Station is just south of the cape. This feature was mapped and called "Mys Granat" (Cape Garnet) by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1961–62. | Domashnyaya Bank
Domashnyaya Bank () is a shoal, covered by only of water, near Molodezhnaya Station in Enderby Land. It lies close to shore, about southwest of Cape Granat. It was first charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1961–62, which called it "Banka Domashnyaya" (domestic bank), presumably for the nearness... | 12,373 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Hodgson [SEP] continent | Cape Hodgson
Cape Hodgson () is the northernmost cape of Black Island, in the Ross Archipelago, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) for Thomas V. Hodgson, a biologist with the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04), who with Reginald Koettlitz, Hartley T... | Charles Benjamin Tayler
Charles Benjamin Tayler (1797–1875) was a Church of England clergyman and writer for the young.
The son of John Tayler, he was born at Leytonstone, Essex, 16 Sep. 1797 and baptised at St Botolph Bishopsgate 11 Nov. following. He was educated at Guildford under the Rev. William Hodgson Cole, and ... | 12,374 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Juncal [SEP] continent | Cape Juncal
Cape Juncal () is a prominent cape forming the northwestern extremity of D'Urville Island, in the Joinville Island group, Antarctica. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1957 and was applied in remembrance of the Argentine naval victory of 1827 at the Battle of Juncal. | ), Cerro Tupungato () and Nevado Juncal () are tens of kilometres away from each other and were connected by a joint ice stream network. The Andes' dendritic glacier arms, i.e. components of valley glaciers, were up to long, over thick and overspanned a vertical distance of . The climatic glacier snowline (ELA) was low... | 12,375 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Lancaster [SEP] continent | Cape Lancaster
Cape Lancaster () is a cape forming the southern extremity of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was discovered by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74. The cape was later sighted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, who named it for Albert Lan... | 1941–Aug 1941)
- Vickers Wellington Mk.III (Jul 1941–Aug 1942)
- Avro Lancaster Mk.I (Sep 1942–Dec 1945; May 1946–Jul 1946)
- Avro Lancaster Mk.III (Sep 1942–Dec 1945; May 1946–Jul 1946)
- Avro Lancaster Mk.VII (Nov 1945–Apr 1946)
- Avro Lincoln B.2 (Jul 1946–May 1952)
- English Electric Canberra B.2 (May 1952–Jun 1956... | 12,376 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Shirreff [SEP] continent | Cape Shirreff
Cape Shirreff is a prominent cape at the north end of the rocky peninsula which separates Hero Bay and Barclay Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The cape was named by Edward Bransfield in 1820 after Captain William H. Shirreff, the British commanding... | Shirreff Base
Shirreff Base (official name Cape Shirreff Field Station) is a seasonal field station in the Southern Ocean operated by the United States and opened in 1996. It is situated on the east side of Cape Shirreff on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic... | 12,377 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Wood [SEP] continent | Cape Wood
Cape Wood () is a point marking the east extremity of Flat Island at the western entrance to Robertson Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Discovered in January 1841 by Captain James Ross, Royal Navy, and named by him for Charles Wood, Esq., First Secretary to the Admiralty. | , wood, and stone tools, had a productive agricultural system. In 1660, the Dutch recognised the Sultan of Tidore's sovereignty over New Guinea. The first known Europeans to sight New Guinea were probably the Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific in the early part of the 16th century.
Dutch nav... | 12,378 | zeroshot-train |
Carlson Peak [SEP] continent | Carlson Peak
Carlson Peak () is one of the Bean Peaks in the Hauberg Mountains, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Paul R. Carlson, meteorologist at Byrd S... | )
- 02-Nov-1982 9 June 1985 David Joseph Fischer
- 23-Aug-1985 8 July 1987 Irvin Hicks
- 15-Dec-1987 31 August 1991 James B. Moran
- 01-Oct-1991 5 July 1992 Richard W. Carlson
- 22-Sep-1992 1 March 1993 Mack F. Mattingly
- Mar-1993 Sep-1994 F. Stephen Malott (Chargé d'affaires)
- 07-Sep-1994 12 May 1995 Carl B. Stokes
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Case Island [SEP] continent | Case Island
Case Island is a roughly circular ice-covered island, in diameter, lying off the coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The island lies in Carroll Inlet between the mainland and Smyley Island. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961–66. The na... | List of island countries
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with the Federated States of Micronesia and Indonesia (both of which consist of thousands of islands). Others ... | 12,380 | zeroshot-train |
Cat Nunatak [SEP] continent | Cat Nunatak
Cat Nunatak () is a nunatak in Antarctica, midway between Vince Nunatak and Hogback Hill in the southern part of Wilson Piedmont Glacier, Victoria Land. It was so named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1994, in recollection that ship’s cats accompanied the "Morning" and the "Terra Nova" on R. F. Scott... | Canisp, formed as a Nunatak
- Castillo Nunatak
- Cat Nunatak
- Cathedral Peak, California, USA
- C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak
- Cheeks Nunatak
- Dean Nunataks
- Drury Nunatak
- Du Toit Nunataks
- Eaton Nunatak
- Exile Nunatak
- "Exiles Nunataks"
- Faraway How
- Gillett Nunataks
- Gora Severny Nunatak
- Gronau Nunataks
- Gro... | 12,381 | zeroshot-train |
Ceres Nunataks [SEP] continent | Ceres Nunataks
The Ceres Nunataks () are a group of three nunataks located immediately east of the base of Shostakovich Peninsula in southern Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in... | ) aeromagnetic 1975 survey of Ceres Nunataks and nearby Astraea Nunatak, this geographical feature is rich in the igneous rocks Diorite and Tonalite as presumed by the rock samples which were observed by BAS during this survey.
Aeromagnetic Survey of Ceres Nunataks and Astraea Nunatak.
In December 1975, the British Ant... | 12,382 | zeroshot-train |
Chad Basin [SEP] continent | Chad Basin
The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad. It has no outlet to the sea and contains large areas of desert or semi-arid savanna. The drainage basin is roughly coterminous with the sedimentary basin of the same name, but extends further to the northeast and east. The basin ... | - 23-May 2013 2016 James Knight
- 9-Sep-2016 Incumbent Geeta Pasi
See also.
- Chad – United States relations
- Foreign relations of Chad
References.
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Chad
External links.
- United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Chad
- United States Department of... | 12,383 | zeroshot-train |
Charity Glacier [SEP] continent | Charity Glacier
Charity Glacier () is a glacier on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the southwest slopes of St. Methodius Peak in Tangra Mountains, and flowing west-southwestwards into False Bay north of Barnard Point, between Zagore Beach and Arkutino Beach.
The gl... | Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase.
During this last glacial period there were alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat. Within the last glacial period the Last Glacial Maximum was approximately 22,000 years ago. While the general pattern of... | 12,384 | zeroshot-train |
Colbeck Bay [SEP] continent | Colbeck Bay
Colbeck Bay () is a cove between Duke of York Island and Cape Klovstad in the southern part of Robertson Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900, under C.E. Borchgrevink, who named it for Lieutenant William Colbeck, Royal Naval... | of Magnetic Observer that he was invited by the Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevink to join the Southern Cross Expedition to the Antarctic.Borchgrevink, C., & British Antarctic expedition. (1901). First on the Antarctic continent: Being an account of the British Antarctic expedition, 1898-1900 / by C.E. Borchgrevink. London... | 12,385 | zeroshot-train |
Cosmonauts Sea [SEP] continent | Cosmonauts Sea
Cosmonauts Sea (, "More Kosmonavtov"; sometimes misspelled "Cosmonaut Sea") was a proposed sea name as part of the Southern Ocean, off the Prince Olav Coast and Enderby Land, Antarctica, between about 30°E and 50°E. It would have an area of . It would be bordered by two other proposals from a 2002 Intern... | clockwise order these include (with IHO sub-division chartlet numbers in parenthesis) the Weddell Sea (10.1), the Lazarev Sea (10.2), the Riiser-Larsen Sea (10.3), the Cosmonauts Sea (10.4), the Cooperation Sea (10.5), the Davis Sea (10.6), Tryoshnikova Gulf (10.6.1), the Mawson Sea (10.7), the Dumont D'Urville Sea (10... | 12,386 | zeroshot-train |
Curphey Peaks [SEP] continent | Curphey Peaks
The Curphey Peaks () are two snow-covered peaks of approximately similar height (the western peak being high), the two peaks bounding the east side of Helix Pass in the Bowers Mountains, a major mountain range within Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Commi... | intervention before impairment becomes permanent. Testing with median nerve SEPs is used to identify the sensory and motor cortex during craniotomies and in monitoring surgery at the midcervical or upper cervical levels. Posterior tibial nerve SEP monitoring is widely used for monitoring the spinal cord during scoliosi... | 12,387 | zeroshot-train |
Daveri Hill [SEP] continent | Daveri Hill
Daveri Hill (, ‘Halm Daveri’ \'h&lm 'da-ve-ri\) is the ice-covered hill rising to 834 m at the northeast extremity of Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Malorad Glacier to the north.
The hill is named after the settlements of Daveri in Northern Bulgaria.
L... | , basic data in English)
External links.
- Daveri Hill. Copernix satellite image | 12,388 | zeroshot-train |
Devils Point [SEP] continent | Devils Point
Devils Point is a point marking the southwest extremity of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the southeast side of the entrance to Osogovo Bay and the west side of the entrance to Raskuporis Cove. The point is separated from Vardim Rocks to the south b... | Deed" one-shot (Jul 1993)
- "Grendel Tales: Four Devils, One Hell" #1-6 (Aug 1993 - Jan 1994)
- "Grendel Tales: The Devil's Hammer" #1-3 (Feb-Apr 1994)
- "Grendel Tales: The Devil in Our Midst" #1-5 (May-Sep 1994)
- "Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths" #1-2 (Sep-Nov 1994)
- "Grendel Tales | 12,389 | zeroshot-train |
Dospey Heights [SEP] continent | Dospey Heights
Dospey Heights (, ‘Dospeyski Vazvisheniya’ \do-'spey-ski va-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the ice-free heights on Ray Promontory in the northwestern part of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 6 km southeastwards from Essex Point and Start Point, and 2.6 km wi... | .
The heights are named after the settlement of Dospey in Rila Mountain, southwestern Bulgaria.
Location.
Dospey Heights are centred at . British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991 and 1993 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.
Maps.
- Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográ... | 12,390 | zeroshot-train |
Dotson Ice Shelf [SEP] continent | Dotson Ice Shelf
Dotson Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about wide between Martin Peninsula and Bear Peninsula on the coast of Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. It was first mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey from air photos obtained by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947, and was named by the Advisory Committee on A... | Smith Glacier
Smith Glacier is a low-gradient Antarctic glacier, over 160 km (100 mi) long, draining from Toney Mountain in an ENE direction to Amundsen Sea. A northern distributary, Kohler Glacier, drains to Dotson Ice Shelf but the main flow passes to the sea between Bear Peninsula and Mount Murphy, terminating at Cr... | 12,391 | zeroshot-train |
Dreschhoff Peak [SEP] continent | Dreschhoff Peak
Dreschhoff Peak () in Antarctica is named after Gisela A.M. Dreschhoff, a physicist at the Space Technology Center, University of Kansas, who conducted radioactivity surveys and other field work in various parts of Antarctica, including Victoria Land, for 11 field seasons, 1976–89. | 17-June-1985, peak 2-June-86)
- 46 weeks - "+" - Ed Sheeran (debut 3-Oct-11, peak 13-Aug-12)
- 45 weeks - "Crowded House" – Crowded House (debut 28-July-86, peak 8-June-87)
- 45 weeks - "The Dutchess" – Fergie (debut 25-Sep-06, peak 30-July-07)
- 43 weeks - "Escape" – Enrique Iglesias (debut 12-Nov-01, peak 26-Aug-02)
... | 12,392 | zeroshot-train |
Durham Point [SEP] continent | Durham Point
Durham Point () is a small rock spur extending north from Mount Durham at the northwest end of the Tapley Mountains, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. The feature was visited in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named in association with Moun... | 1. William Ford Hulton, b. 19 Sep 1811 – d. 18 May 1879
2. Amelia Marie Hulton, b. 1815 – d. 5 Feb 1871, who married Henry Montagu Villiers, later Bishop of Durham
3. Arthur Hyde Hulton, b. 31 Jul 1816
4. Sophia Frances Anne Hulton, b. 27 Oct 1817
5. Randle Harrington Hulton, b. 23 Dec 1818
6. Frederick Bleythin Hulton... | 12,393 | zeroshot-train |
Eady Ice Piedmont [SEP] continent | Eady Ice Piedmont
Eady Ice Piedmont () is the ice piedmont lying south of Mount Discovery and Minna Bluff, merging at the south side with the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Nam... | Hondius Inlet
Hondius Inlet (, ‘Zaliv Hondius’ \'za-liv 'hon-diy\) is the 5.7 km wide ice-filled inlet indenting for 6.7 km the tip of Joerg Peninsula, Bowman Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula southeast of Three Slice Nunatak. Its head is fed by Getman Ice Piedmont.
The feature is named after the Flemish cartographer Jo... | 12,394 | zeroshot-train |
Ellis Cone [SEP] continent | Ellis Cone
Ellis Cone () is one of several small cones or cone remnants along the southwest side of Toney Mountain in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Homer L. ... | NC.
- Fought on 22 Feb 1864 at Wilmington, NC.
- Fought on 24 Mar 1864 at Cone Creek, NC.
- Fought on 15 Jul 1864 at Plymouth, NC.
- Fought on 29 Sep 1864 at Tyrrell Co, NC.
- Fought on 29 Sep 1864 at Plymouth, NC.
- Fought on 31 Oct 1864 at Plymouth, NC.
- Fought on 5 Dec 1864 at Fort Fisher, NC.
- Fought on 8 Dec 186... | 12,395 | zeroshot-train |
Ellsworth Mountains [SEP] continent | Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the Sentinel Range to the north and the ... | , No. 3 (Sep., 1965), pp. 365–376 in JSTOR
- Martin, Geoffrey J. "Ellsworth Huntington: His Life and Thought" (1973)
- Spate, O. H. K. "Ellsworth Huntington: A Geographical Giant: Review," "Geographical Journal" Vol. 140, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 117–119 in JSTOR
External links.
- Articles authored in Harper's Magazine
... | 12,396 | zeroshot-train |
Entrikin Glacier [SEP] continent | Entrikin Glacier
Entrikin Glacier () is a broad sweeping glacier flowing eastward from the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica into Matterson Inlet. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Joseph W. Entrikin, a U.S. Navy pilot with Squadron VX-6 during Operation Deep Freeze I, 1... | Cobham Range
- Darley Hills
- Holyoake Range
- Nash Range
- Surveyors Range
Sub−ranges Other features.
- Ahern Glacier
- Algie Knoll
- Alligator Eyes
- Black Icefalls
- Bradshaw Peak
- Brecher Glacier
- Byrd Glacier
- Carlstrom Foothills
- Carr Crest
- Cerberus Peak
- Chapman Snowfield
- Cooper Snowfield
- Cupcake Peak... | 12,397 | zeroshot-train |
Farmer Glacier [SEP] continent | Farmer Glacier
Farmer Glacier () is a glacier flowing north west into Starshot Glacier, and located between Mount McKerrow to the north and Thompson Mountain to the south, at the southern end of the Surveyors Range in Antarctica. It was named in honor of D. W. Farmer, a member of the 1960 Cape Hallett winter-over team,... | Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase.
During this last glacial period there were alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat. Within the last glacial period the Last Glacial Maximum was approximately 22,000 years ago. While the general pattern of... | 12,398 | zeroshot-train |
Ferguson Nunataks [SEP] continent | Ferguson Nunataks
The Ferguson Nunataks () are a nunatak group lying between the heads of Meinardus Glacier and Swann Glacier in Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N... | case of petrels and other flying seabirds, the ability to nest on nunataks may have allowed them the ability to stay on the continent during the glacial period and fly down to the edge of the ice for food. However, this was most likely not the case with colony forming species such as the Adélie penguin and the Antarcti... | 12,399 | zeroshot-train |
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