GOMOS ( Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars ) looks to stars as they descend through the Earth's atmosphere and change color, which also tells a lot about the presence of gases such as ozone (), and allows for the first time a space-based measurement of the vertical distribution of these trace gases.

* Some episodes of the later series from the fictional Star Trek universe use the holodeck ( or its Ferengi equivalent, a " holosuite ") to tell a " story-within-a-story ", while the Deep Space Nine episode Far Beyond the Stars tells a similar story without such a high-tech plot device, as basically a work of metafiction, using the DS9 regular characters to tell a mid-20th century story, set in a science fiction publishing house in New York City.

The inspiration for the screenplay was drawn, in part, from the A. J. Cronin novel The Stars Look Down, which is also set in an English coal mining community during a strike, and similarly tells the story of a miner's son who goes against the grain.

Christopher returns to Stars Hollow and after he tells Lorelai he has problems in his relationship with Sherrie, they spend the night together before Sookie's wedding.

For example, in the first season episode " And the Sky Full of Stars ", a member of the Minbari Grey Council tells Delenn that Sinclair must be killed if he remembers his missing 24 hours at the Battle of the Line.

He tells Charlie that Orion's career with the Minnesota North Stars ended when the team moved to Dallas and he stayed to care for his paraplegic daughter.

The documentary movie Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars tells the story of a group of refugees who fled to Guinea and created a band to ease the pain of the constant difficulty of living away from home and community after the atrocities of war and mutilation.

* When Rory tells Lorelai that she cannot believe that the next day is her last day at Stars Hollow High, it is dark outside meaning that it must be Thursday night.

When Benny stepped in as the Hep Stars ' keyboardist in October of that year, he knew this was what he wanted to do.

In the 1998 offseason, after falling just short in the Western Conference Finals, the Stars added what they believed was the final piece toward winning a championship: star goalscoring winger, Brett Hull.

When asked by a Stars and Stripes reporter what will he say to both the " big brass " as well as to the Japanese, neither of which will be particularly happy, Major Gruver says, " Tell ' em we said ' Sayonara.

Kirby was originally named Popopo, and his model was created as a blob placeholder sprite during the development of what would be the first Kirby game, originally titled ' Twinkle Popopo ' instead of the current Hoshi no Kābī ( translated as ' Kirby of the Stars ').

In what proved to be a harbinger of things to come, however, the Stars asked to go on a two-year hiatus not long after winning the title.

Once there the Stars again won the USFL title beating the Bobby Hebert-led Oakland Invaders in what was seen as a rematch of the first USFL title game.

reflected in the title of the 2006 Iraq War documentary The Ground Truth and is used in military publications, for example Stars and Stripes saying " Stripes decided to figure out what the ground truth was in Iraq.

About Lost in the Stars, Paton thought that the opening lines were " profoundly unchristian and tantamount to an invitation to despair, and therefore they an expression of something directly opposed to what Paton intended his character to embody.

In January 1983 the Belle Stars released what would be their signature single, " Sign of the Times ", peaking at number three, and a chart success throughout Europe.

Some of these early pieces were lost, but Los celos hacen estrellas (" Jealousies Turn Into Stars ") by Juan Hidalgo and Juan Vélez, which premiered in 1672, survives and gives us some sense of what the genre was like in the 17th century.

A Battle group made up of what was referred to as Advanced Omega Destroyers were deployed against, and subsequently destroyed by, a number of White Stars that had been dispatched to engage a previously unseen type of Earth vessel.

Around the time Jack returns from space in the " Stars, My Destination " story arc, Culp is able to assume full control over Shade's body for an extended period of time and imprison or neutralize most of Opal City's heroes in a bid to loot and destroy Opal-with no other motive than to destroy what Shade loves most.

North Stars GM Lou Nanne sent Don Murdoch, Greg Smith, and a first round pick ( Murray Craven ) to the Wings in exchange for what later turned out to be the second overall draft pick.

When the Sky is cleft asunder ; When the Stars are scattered ; When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth ; And when the Graves are turned upside down ; ( Then ) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and ( what it hath ) kept back.

Other stories in the collection deal with chess (" Black to Move " and " The Jersey Rifle "), time travel with unintended consequences (" Cruising Through Deuteronomy " and " Time Travelers Never Die "), and the beginnings of interplanetary exploration (" Translations from the Colosian ", " Promises to Keep ", and " To Hell with the Stars ", the last an exposition of what may happen if humanity chooses to not enter space ).

* Stars ( i wonder what the moon is up to?

On September 24, the Wheels faced the Stars in Downing Stadium, losing 37-7 in what proved to be the Stars ' last game in New York.

He helped lead his team to the Finals of the inaugural Calder Cup championship, but lost to the Syracuse Stars in four games of what was a five-game series.

Mark Thomas Pavelich ( born February 28, 1958 in Eveleth, Minnesota ) is a retired US professional ice hockey forward who played 355 regular season games in the NHL for the New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars and San Jose Sharks between 1981 and 1992 and was a member of the 1980 U. S. Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal in what has been called the Miracle on Ice.

Along the way, he scored what was probably the biggest goal of his career, an overtime winner against the Dallas Stars.

Unfortunately, things hit a snag when a cute new transfer student flirts with Rory, leading the younger Gilmore to wonder whether leaving Stars Hollow High is really what she wants.

In the 10th century, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi carried out observations on the stars and described their positions, magnitudes and star color, and gave drawings for each constellation, in his Book of Fixed Stars.

The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.

This plot shows 22, 000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue together with 1, 000 low-luminosity stars ( red and white dwarfs ) from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.

Stars on this band are known as main-sequence stars or " dwarf " stars.

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

In the Phaseis ( Risings of the Fixed Stars ) Ptolemy gave a parapegma, a star calendar or almanac based on the hands and disappearances of stars over the course of the solar year.

The name is because the Asterism of Three Stars was originally composed of just three stars, all of them in the girdle of the Orion.

Among these, the Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ) was written by the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who observed a number of stars, star clusters ( including the Omicron Velorum and Brocchi's Clusters ) and galaxies ( including the Andromeda Galaxy ).

Stars with at least half the mass of the Sun can also begin to generate energy through the fusion of helium at their core, while more massive stars can fuse heavier elements along a series of concentric shells.

Stars of roughly 0. 5 – 10 solar masses become red giants: large non-main sequence stars of stellar classification K or M. Red giants lie along the right edge of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram due to their red color and large luminosity.

Other famous Arabic star catalogues include Alfraganus ' A compendium of the science of stars ( 850 ) which corrected Ptolemy's Almagest ; and Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ) which described observations of the stars, their positions, magnitudes, brightness and colour, drawings for each constellation, and the first descriptions of Andromeda Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

First published in 1930 as the Yale Catalog of Bright Stars, this catalog contained information on all stars brighter than visual magnitude 6. 5 in the Harvard Revised Photometry Catalogue.

Stars with large debris disks have altered astronomical thinking about planet formation ; debris disk stars, where dust is continually generated by collisions, appear to form planets readily.

Stars that display an infrared excess because of dust emission are termed Vega-like stars.

Sternberg publishes the General Catalog of Variable Stars ( GCVS ), which is periodically ( approximately once every two years ) amended by the publication of a new " Name-List " of variable stars.

For example, in December 2011 the 80th Name-List of Variable Stars, Part II, was released, containing designations for 2161 recently-discovered variable stars ; these brought the total number of variable stars in the GCVS to 45, 678.

He waited until 1802 ( in Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars ; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens ) to announce the hypothesis that the two stars might be " binary sidereal systems " orbiting under mutual gravitational attraction, a hypothesis he confirmed in 1803 in his Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars ; with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing.

Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.

SEALs were awarded 2 Navy Crosses, 42 Silver stars, 402 Bronze Stars, 2 Legions of Merit, 352 Commendation Medals, 3 Presidential Unit Citations and 3 Medals of Honor.