On the border of the insignia, there are sixteen stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly Duke.

This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.

As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been the subject of a number of studies in the emerging field of asteroseismology.

Within constellations having an extremely large number of stars, Bayer eventually advanced to upper-case Latin letters, as in G Scorpii ( G of the Scorpion ) and N Velorum ( N of the Sails ).

The abundance of elements in the Solar System is in keeping with their origin from nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang and a number of progenitor supernova stars.

Elements heavier than iron are made in energy-absorbing processes in large stars, and their abundance in the universe ( and on Earth ) generally decreases with their atomic number.

The constellation contains a number of molecular clouds ( the Chamaeleon dark clouds ) that are forming low-mass T Tauri stars.

The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

This leads to the Great Filter, which notes that since there are no observed extraterrestrial civilizations, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.

) The original Drake Equation can be extended to a more realistic model, where the equation uses not the number of stars that are forming now, but those that were forming several billion years ago.

The alternate formulation, in terms of the number of stars in the galaxy, is easier to explain and understand, but implicitly assumes the star formation rate is constant over the life of the galaxy.

The number of stars in the galaxy now, N < sup >*</ sup >, is related to the star formation rate R < sup >*</ sup > by

These include the number of times a civilization might re-appear on the same planet, the number of nearby stars that might be colonized and form sites of their own, and other factors.

Whatever the proportion of stars with planets, the total number of exoplanets must be very large.

The Outsiders is notable for being the breakout film for a number of young actors who would go on to become major stars.

The age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that unless the Earth is very atypical, extraterrestrial life should be common.

Even if intelligent life occurs on only a minuscule percentage of planets around these stars, there might still be a great number of civilizations extant in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

The speculative equation factors in: the rate of star formation in the galaxy ; the fraction of stars with planets and the number per star that are habitable ; the fraction of those planets which develop life, the fraction of intelligent life, and the further fraction of detectable technological intelligent life ; and finally the length of time such civilizations are detectable.

Actual proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it is composed of a huge number of faint stars.

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

Spader was one of a number of prominent guest stars in " Search Committee ," the final episode of season 7 of The Office.

There are a fair number of bright stars, both single and double, in Lepus.

An all-star version of " America the Beautiful " performed by country singers Trace Adkins, Billy Dean, Vince Gill, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Toby Keith, Brenda Lee, Lonestar, Martina McBride, Jamie O ' Neal, Kenny Rogers and Keith Urban reached number 58 in July 2001.

This might sound complex, but first of all the number of di-atomic molecules that can exist at the temperatures of the atomizers used in AAS is relatively small, and second, the correction is performed by the computer within a few seconds.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

* Time — the number of computation steps ( like encryptions ) which must be performed.

The different names are intended to denote the number of ' slow ' ( e. g., step, hop ) steps performed during each basic.

This is in contrast to the practice of an artist or group releasing an album consisting of a number of unconnected ( lyrically and otherwise ) songs performed by the artist.

For twisting Armstand dives, the dive number again has 4 digits, but rather than beginning with the number 5, the number 6 remains as the first digit, indicating that the " twister " will be performed from an Armstand.

The work of assigning a DDC number to each newly published book is performed by a division of the Library of Congress, whose recommended assignments are either accepted or rejected by the OCLC after review by an advisory board ; to date all have been accepted.

The play Hamlet has been performed a number of times in its courtyard.

In a digital implementation, the number of computations performed per sample is proportional to N. Thus the mathematical problem is to obtain the best approximation ( in some sense ) to the desired response using a smaller N, as we shall now illustrate.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

The number of rotations performed in the air for each jump determines whether the jump is a single, double, triple, or quadruple ( known commonly as a " quad ").

There are also a number of other jumps that are usually performed only as single jumps and in elite skating are used as transitional movements or highlights in step sequences.

The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

On programming the system, either by the pilot or groundcrew, a number of control movement steps are automatically performed.

Nevertheless, the song often received standing ovations when performed in concert, went to number 22 in the Christian charts through a marketing deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.

Eurysteus set two more tasks ( fetching the Golden Apples of Hesperides and capturing Cerberus ), which Heracles performed successfully, bringing the total number of tasks up to twelve.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U. S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), which ICANN now operates.

A large number of studies have been performed ; meta-studies have supported the safety of irradiated food.

Dowland performed a number of espionage assignments for Sir Robert Cecil in France and Denmark ; his high rate of pay notwithstanding, Dowland seems to have been only a court musician.

Pete Seeger often performed this song and it appears on a number of his recordings.

The incident erupted into scandal when media reported that a number of the players had performed sex acts and that prostitutes had been flown in.

Manual evaluation is performed by human judges, which are instructed to estimate the quality of a system, or most often of a sample of its output, based on a number of criteria.