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They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
Asteroids ( from Greek ἀστεροειδής-asteroeidēs, " star-like ", from " star " and " like, in form ") are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun.
People had used gloves previously, but never had a star like Spalding used one.
He makes the average or above average player look like a star at times.
" Jagger also praised the late star as a one of a kind musician, adding, " We will never see his like again.
Note, not all CUC members like this playful reading and so when these people write the abbreviation they leave out the star (*), just writing UU instead.
The blue star also is used on other entries like an imaging facility and storage facility.
A girlfriend recalled his " scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy ", and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character " who looks like he's landed from Mars ".
For books that did not have a single star, such as anthologies like House of Mystery or team series such as Justice League of America, the title and " DC " appeared in a stylized logo, such as a bat for " House of Mystery.
: Microlensing occurs when the gravitational field of a star acts like a lens, magnifying the light of a distant background star.
The derivation must then have been secondary for the initial ayin to be confused with an aleph ( both represented by vowels in Akkadian ), and the second consonant descended as a / s / ( like in the Aramaic asthr " bright star "), rather than a / sh / as in Hebrew and most commonly in Akkadian.
Behold, therefore, four stars reserved for your illustrious name ... which ... make their journeys and orbits with a marvelous speed around the star of Jupiter ... like children of the same family ...
They added star pitcher Andy Pettitte to a roster that already included standouts like Lance Berkman and Jeff Kent as well as veterans Bagwell and Biggio.
' There was a hollow space at the center of Kosinski that had resulted from denying his past ,' Sloan writes, ' and his whole life had become a race to fill in that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon himself like a burnt-out star.
They, like humans, descended from a failed attempt by Pak Protectors to colonize Sol and nearby star systems.
But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.
It is possible that NC type novae are objects differing physically very much from normal novae, for example planetary nebulae in formation, exhibiting Wolf-Rayet star like features.
The metaphor of His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light even if no fire touches it.
In general relativity theory, it is still possible for the paradox to hold in a finite universe: though the sky would not be infinitely bright, every point in the sky would still be like the surface of a star.
Firstly, Berlin ’ s medieval fortifications, recently rebuilt from 1658-74 in the form of a Dutch-style star fort, on an enormous scale and at great expense ( and similar to examples still in extant today in the Netherlands like Naarden and Bourtange ), became virtually redundant overnight ; and secondly, the already crowded city became even more congested.
* Vowel prothesis in Logudorese before an initial s followed by consonant, like in Western Romance: scriptum > iscrítu ( Spanish escrito, French écrit ), stellam > isteddu ' star ' ( Spanish estrella, French étoile ).
Once a star like the Sun has exhausted its nuclear fuel, its core collapses into a dense white dwarf and the outer layers are expelled as a planetary nebula.
A mid-sized star like the Sun will remain on the main sequence for about 10 billion years.

star and Deneb
It is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0. 77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle ( the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega ).
The brightest star in Capricornus is δ Capricorni, also called Deneb Algedi, with a magnitude of 2. 9, 39 light-years from Earth.
Deneb Algedi is a Beta Lyrae variable star ( a type of eclipsing binary ).
Beta Ceti, also called Deneb Kaitos and Diphda, is the brightest star in Cetus.
Alpha Cygni, called Deneb, is the brightest star in Cygnus.
Epsilon Delphini, called Deneb Dulfim, meaning " tail of the Dolphin ", is a star of spectral class B6 III and magnitude 4.
This star, along with η Cet ( Deneb Algenubi ), θ Cet ( Thanih Al Naamat ), ζ Cet ( Baten Kaitos ), and υ Cet, were Al Naʽāmāt ( ألنعامة ), the Hen Ostriches.
This star lies at a vertex of a widely spaced asterism called the Summer Triangle, which consists of the zero-magnitude stars Vega in the constellation Lyra and Altair in Aquila, plus the first magnitude star Deneb in Cygnus.
In about 8, 000 years it will be the bright star Deneb ( left ), and in about 12, 000 years, Vega ( left center ).
But once a year all the magpies in the world would take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge ( 鹊桥, " the bridge of magpies ", Que Qiao ) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, which is the seventh night of the seventh moon.
* The star Deneb is a fairy who acts as a chaperone when the lovers meet on the magpie bridge.
The North America Nebula ( NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20 ) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb ( the tail of the swan and its brightest star ).
If the star inducing the ionization is Deneb, as some sources say, the nebula complex would be about 1800 light years distance, and its absolute size ( 6 ° apparent diameter on the sky ) would be 100 light years.
* Aar, a fictional planet of the star Deneb, in the " Captain Future " stories.
For example, they visit the star Deneb, which is the origin of Earth humans, as well as many other humanoid races across the Solar System and beyond.
Deneb is the alpha star in Cygnus.
On R. A. Proctor's 1871 star chart of the northern hemisphere it was designated Deneb Aleet.
Deneb Kaitos has an apparent visual magnitude of 2. 02, making it the brightest star in Cetus.
In Chinese astronomy, Deneb Kaitos is called 土司空, Pinyin: Tǔsīkōng, meaning Master of Constructions, because this star is marking itself and stand alone in Master of Constructions asterism, Legs mansion ( see: Chinese constellation ).
Sadalsuud is the star in the left shoulder, just above Delta Capricorni | Deneb Algedi ( δ Cap )

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