The effect of dynamical friction explains why the brightest ( more massive ) galaxy tends to be found near the center of a galaxy cluster.

He's not exactly the brightest person around, but does occasionally exhibit some tactical ploy, as well as some considerable computer and mechanical engineering skills ; seen as he managed to adapt his car to serve as jury-rigged control center for the super-advance MEGAS, as well install a number of secondary modifications to MEGAS.

It contains about 100 stars including several red giants, the brightest being a spectral type K3 giant near the cluster's center.

A survey of the brightest asymptotic giant branch ( AGB ) stars in the area of radius 2 ′ from the center of NGC 147 shows that the last significant star-forming activity in NGC 147 occurred around 3 Gyr ago.

It is a publishing and public relations center, but these very facts prevent it from being a literary center because writers dislike provincialism and untruth.

Length of the shaft of these arrows may be evaluated according to the standard deviation values for each center in Table 1.

The nuclei of these fibers, as is shown in Figures 3 and 4, showed remarkable proliferation and were closely approximated, forming a chainlike structure at either the center or the periphery of the fiber.

In these terms, the `` economic withdrawal '' of the Negroes of Nashville, Tennessee, from trading in the center city, for example, was clearly justified, since these distinctions do not require that only people subjectively guilty be singled out.

We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center.

Since these electrons are moving like planets, you may wonder whether there is an atomic sun at the center of the atom.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

There are bumps on the skin that look somewhat like insect bites ; these are usually red, and sometimes white in the center.

" Though apparent to very few historians at the time, these defeats were the beginning of the decline of Europe as the center of world politics.

Taken together, these composers can be seen as the vanguard of a broad change in style and the center of music.

In late Neolithic times, the Yellow River valley began to establish itself as a center of Yangshao culture ( 5000 BC to 3000 BC ), and the first villages were founded ; the most archaeologically significant of these was found at Banpo, Xi ' an.

Most of these are called " Service Bets ", and they are located at the center of most craps tables.

The function of the nucleus is to maintain the integrity of these genes and to control the activities of the cell by regulating gene expression — the nucleus is, therefore, the control center of the cell.

The center of an atomic projectile striking this plane has geometrically a definite probability of passing within a certain distance of one of these points.

Using these coordinates, the motion along the path is viewed as a succession of circular paths of ever-changing center, and at each position s constitutes non-uniform circular motion at that position with radius ρ.

Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games ; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the " omphalos " ( navel ) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world.

Any convex polyhedron can be distorted into a canonical form, in which a midsphere ( or intersphere ) exists tangent to every edge, such that the average position of these points is the center of the sphere, and this form is unique up to congruences.

The resurgence of these dress daggers and accoutrements in post-World War I Germany gave a much needed boost to the flagging fortunes of the metalworking center Solingen.

" At the very center of these beliefs, there stood the republic.

All elliptical galaxies probed so far have supermassive black holes in their center, and the mass of these black holes is correlated with the mass of the elliptical galaxy.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

According to Aristotle, these four terrestrial elements are capable of inter-transformation and move toward their natural place, so a stone falls downward toward the center of the cosmos, but flames rise upward toward the circumference.

`` Dead center at three hundred yards, that coroner said ''!!

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

It seems to us that choices exercised by realtors in moral situations center in at least three areas: ( 1 ) the various ways in which they interpret a particular social issue ; ;

In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms.

In this relief, the two principal figures, the stern and courageous pope and the dismayed and frightened Attila, surge forward from the center into three dimensions.

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

A system with three instruction processors was installed at TWA's reservations center in Rockleigh, New Jersey in 1968.

In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied by a choir of three or more singers in the center of the circle.

One solution made use of a grid of hexagonal keys with symbols inscribed into dimples in the keys that were either in the center of a key, across the boundary of two keys, or at the joining of three keys.

By 1916 the three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.

The Bible refers to the denarius as a day's wage for a common laborer ( Matthew 20: 2 ; John 12: 5 ). The value of the denarius is referred to, though perhaps not literally, in the Bible at Revelation 6: 6: " And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, ' A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius Vulgate: bilibris tritici denario et tres bilibres hordei denario, δηναρίου in the original Greek ; and do not damage the oil and the wine.

In St. Maclou at Rouen are three magnificently carved doors ; those by Jean Goujon have figures in niches on each side, and others in a group of great beauty in the center.

* Before the 2011 season, three new scoreboards beyond right-center field were installed: a 38-by-100-foot scoreboard in right-center field, a 17-by-100-foot video screen in center field, a 16-by-30-foot video board in right field, along with a new video control room.

Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcano es ( red triangles ) and the Afar Triangle ( shaded, center ) — a triple junction where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the African Plate ( the Nubian and the Somali ) splitting along the East African Rift Zone ( USGS ).

All three could possibly impact the detention center, as well as how any detainee future or present will be held by the United States.

The area's location at the center of routes linking three continents made it the meeting place for religious and cultural influences from Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor.

This had fatal consequences for the Western Group of Armies, since it led to the early loss of the strategic center of all three Macedonian fronts, the city of Thessaloniki, a fact that sealed their fate.

A triple harp features three rows of parallel strings, two outer rows of diatonic strings, and a center row of chromatic strings.

There were three volcanic cones on Krakatoa island: Rakata, () to the south ; Danan, () near the center ; and Perboewatan, () to the north.

The voivodeships with a majority ethnic Lithuanian population were Vilnius, Trakai and Samogitian voivodeships, and these three voivodeships comprised the political center of the state.

* Adjudant-Major ( three yellow chevrons, two yellow stripes and a little yellow circle in the center )

Portuguese and Chinese merchants flocked to Macau, and it quickly became an important regional trading center in Portugal's lucrative trade along three major routes: Macau-Malacca-Goa-Lisbon, Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki and Macau-Manila-Mexico.

Mars was one of the three Homeworlds and the industrial center of the Solar System before the war between Terrans and Neosapiens.

The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also ; however, according to the Talmud ( Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b ), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others.