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Circumpolar and stars
Circumpolar stars close to the celestial pole move only slowly.
Circumpolar stars are therefore visible from said location towards nearest pole for the entire night on every night of the year ( and would be continuously visible throughout the day too, were they not overwhelmed by the Sun's glare ).
Circumpolar stars remain above the horizon throughout the whole year, making them always visible in the sky at dawn.
* Circumpolar star, stars that never rise or set from the perspective of a given latitude on Earth.

Circumpolar and .
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current ( ACC ) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current ( ACC ) is an ocean current that flows clockwise from west to east around Antarctica.
Associated with the Circumpolar Current is the Antarctic Convergence where the cold Antarctic waters meet the warmer waters of the subantarctic, creating a zone of upwelling nutrients.
The Circumpolar Current is driven by the strong westerly winds which are found in the latitudes of the Southern Ocean.
Different theories of the Circumpolar Current balance the momentum imparted by the winds in different ways.
Such theories link the magnitude of the Circumpolar Current with the global thermohaline circulation, particularly the properties of the North Atlantic.
Alternatively, ocean eddies, the oceanic equivalent of atmospheric storms, or the large-scale meanders of the Circumpolar Current may directly transport momentum downwards in the water column.
Recent studies have indicated that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current varies with time.
Evidence of this is the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, a periodic oscillation that affects the climate of much of the southern hemisphere.
Trends in the Antarctic Oscillation have been hypothesized to account for an increase in the transport of the Circumpolar Current over the past two decades.
Published estimates of the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current vary, but it is commonly considered to have started at the Eocene / Oligocene boundary.
Studies of phytoplankton stocks in the southern sea have shown that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is dominated by diatoms, while the Weddell Sea has abundant coccolithophorids and silicoflagellates.
An expedition in May 2008 by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts, as well as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to investigate the effects of climate change of the southern Ocean.
Nowling, 1995, On the meridional extent and fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Deep Sea Research, Series I, 42, 641-673.
After the tectonic creation of Drake Passage, when South America fully detached from Antarctica during the Oligocene, the climate cooled significantly due to the advent of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which brought cool deep Antarctic water to the surface.
The Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopted " Inuit " as a designation for all Eskimos, regardless of their local usages, in 1977.
However, the Inuit Circumpolar Council, as it is known today, uses both " Inuit " and " Eskimo " in its official documents.
Its path can ultimately be traced into the Southern Ocean and around the tip of Africa as it mixes with Circumpolar Deep Water.
NADW's distinctive composition ( particularly high-salinity ) compared to other watermasses allows its path to be traced as it mixes with Circumpolar Deep Water, which in turn fills the deep Indian Ocean and part of the South Pacific.
The South Equatorial Current, flowing west along the equator, swings southward east of New Guinea, turns east at about 50 ° S, and joins the main westerly circulation of the Southern Pacific, which includes the Earth-circling Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
The trend was partly caused by the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which significantly cooled oceanic water temperatures.
Tens of millions of years ago, continental plate movement formed a land-free gap around Antarctica, allowing formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current | ACC which keeps warm waters away from Antarctica.
The latest IPY brought about the most ambitious Arctic climate change research project ever undertaken in Canada, a $ 150-million ( CAD ) research program called the Circumpolar Flaw Lead ( CFL ) System Study.
" Freyja and Frigg-two aspects of the Great Goddess " as presented in Shamanism and Northern Ecology: Papers presented at the Regional Conference on Circumpolar and Northern Religion, Helsinki, May 1990.

stars and never
Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.
Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".
Conversely, there are other stars that never rise above the horizon, as seen from any given point on the Earth's surface ( except exactly on the equator ).
Despite the thrilling win and the recognition, Bogart later commented, " The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one ... too many stars ... win it and then figure they have to top themselves ... they become afraid to take chances.
Introducing methods of photographing high-speed auto racing that had never been seen before, mounting cameras on the cars, at full speed and putting the stars in the actual cars, instead of against rear-projections, the film was an international success and won three Oscars, for editing, sound and sound effects.
However, Protagoras has never suggested that man must be the measure of stars, or the motion of the stars.
They never saw the stars until they were enslaved by the Kzinti.
If it does, it will develop into a red giant as described for mid-sized stars below, but never fuse helium as they do ; otherwise, it will simply contract until electron degeneracy pressure halts its collapse, becoming first a blue dwarf and then a white dwarf.
James Stewart also stars as a mysterious clown who never removes his make-up, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame play supporting roles.
This was never written down by Mach, but was given a graphic verbal form, attributed by Philipp Frank to Mach himself, as, " When the subway jerks, it's the fixed stars that throw you down.
Despite several innovations in broadcasting and the creation of one of television's biggest stars of the 1950s, the network never found itself on solid financial ground.
Marduk next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws they were never to transgress.
It never comes close enough to be affected by the Sun, but it never goes far enough away from the Sun to be affected by other stars.
Upon losing Tjinimin hung upside down in a tree and admired the stars, vowing to never have sex again.
TV Guide rated the film 3½ out of four stars, calling it " a small, understated, and very sensitive film " and adding, " It could have been a drab, weepy story, but Stern and Newman collaborated to make it an inspiring one that proves one is never too old to change one's life.
This temple appears on the north side of the pyramid throughout the Third Dynasty, as the king wishes to go north to become one of the eternal stars in the North Sky that never set.
Some stars within the far northern constellations, such as Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor, roughly north of the Tropic of Cancer (+ 23½ °), will be circumpolar stars that never rise or set.
Conversely, some stars are never seen in some locations.
Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and found that it was " told with a cheerfulness and a light touch that never betray the time and money it took to create them ", appreciating " the sly wit and satire that sneaks in here and there from director Terry Gilliam and his collaborators, who were mostly forged in the mill of Monty Python ".
The number of stars on the obverse has also changed over the years, with never fewer than three, but on some known examples with as many as a dozen ( the explanation as to the meaning of the stars in these early cases varies from chapter to chapter ).

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