Even though scientific research is not their main goal, many amateur astronomers make a contribution to astronomy by monitoring variable stars, tracking asteroids and discovering transient objects, such as comets.

Though nondescript in most amateur telescopes, it presents bright clusters of young stars and many dark dust lanes in photographs.

For stars, in the absence of extensive observations at many wavelengths, it usually must be computed assuming an effective temperature.

" Of the many themes that were used on local coinage, celestial and astral symbols often appeared, mostly stars or crescent moons.

Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.

Starting the following game, the song ( a favorite among many fans, who appreciated its references to Wild Bill Hagy and Earl Weaver ) was only played ( along with a video featuring several Orioles stars performing the song ) after wins.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

Visible spectra of many stars, including the Sun, exhibit strong absorption lines of singly ionized calcium.

Because of the long timescales involved, the cold CNO cycles convert hydrogen to helium slowly, allowing them to power stars in quiescent equilibrium for many years.

However, Cadamosto's constellation had too many stars and was tilted incorrectly.

Centaurus also has many dimmer double stars and binary stars.

Centaurus is home to many variable stars.

It was one of many constellations created by European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries out of unfamiliar Southern Hemisphere stars.

This almanac contained a significant amount of astronomy, celestial motions of the sun, planets, and stars, as did many almanacs of the time.

Having worked with many Hollywood stars, Cronenberg says that he did not get to make a film with an actor he wanted to work with for a long time, Burt Reynolds.

Technological advances, most notably in high-resolution spectroscopy, led to the rapid detection of many new exoplanets: astronomers could detect exoplanets indirectly by measuring their gravitational influence on the motion of their parent stars.

: Disks of space dust surround many stars, believed to originate from collisions among asteroids and comets.

Whether this similarity was intentional or accidental, it may explain why the plainer fashion of placing the stars in three parallel rows was preferred by many Americans over the quincuncial style.

Since there are many stars older than the Sun, or since intelligent life might have evolved earlier elsewhere, the question then becomes why the galaxy has not been colonized already.

At a time when most movie-related publications glorified the stars in front of the camera, " Uncle Forry ", as he was referred to by many of his fans, promoted the behind-the-scenes artists involved in the magic of movies.

" The Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah (" Avempace ", d. 1138 ) proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars that almost touch one another and appear to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars as evidence of this occurring when two objects are near.

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.

At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.

" MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies ," she said.

The MGM moguls were careful to protect their contract stars from controversy, and Tracy wished to conceal his relationship with Hepburn from his wife, so it was hidden from the public.

After appearing in Puss Gets the Boot, Tom and Jerry quickly became the stars of MGM cartoons.

During the 1930s Beery was one of Hollywood's Top 10 box office stars, and at one point his contract with MGM stipulated that he be paid $ 1 more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the highest paid actor in the world.

Joan Crawford's first role was a Thalberg production at MGM and she became one of their leading stars for the next thirty years.

When Thalberg returned to work in 1933, it was as one of the studio's unit producers, albeit one who had first choice on projects and MGM resources, including its stars, due to his closeness to Nicholas Schenck, who was then president of MGM corporate parent Loew's Inc. Schenck, who was the true power and ultimate arbiter at the studio, usually backed up Thalberg.

The funeral attracted thousands of spectators who came to view the arrival of countless stars from MGM and other studios, including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, among the stars.

After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM )— a movie studio that, at the time, was known for holding contracts with a large number of stars — and, in spite of having a " tier B " status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, and Helen Twelvetrees.

Lawrence returned to the screen in 1936, when MGM began giving small parts to old stars for seventy-five dollars a week.

An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets.

She was one of the more popular ingenues at MGM throughout the 1930s and appeared in a number of other productions with various stars.

The film started out smaller but then MGM increased the budget to hire stars such as Lord Olivier.

* 1943 gathering of MGM stars

Still young, her star continued to rise while the popularity of other female stars at MGM, such as Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, waned.

", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had " more stars than there are in the heavens ".

Berkeley had several well-publicized run-ins with MGM stars such as Judy Garland.

Several stars, including Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy, Errol Flynn, Alex Trebek, and MGM mogul, Louis B. Mayer, have owned horses that raced at the park.

The Andy Hardy series served as a platform for MGM to introduce new performers, some of whom became stars themselves.

MGM was searching for a suitable youngster to play the adopted son of Tarzan in its next jungle movie with stars Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O ' Sullivan.

In real life, Williams and Reed were close friends and had been so since the early 1940s when they were rising MGM contract stars.

A highlight of the film is Morgan's reenactment of the current MGM hit film Boom Town, with Morgan's character, Frank Merriweather, supposedly imitating the voices of the stars of that film.

Throughout the decade, Hurrell photographed every star contracted to MGM, and his striking black-and-white images were used extensively in the marketing of these stars.