) Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic.

Of the 88 modern constellations, there are at least 30 in which " Alpha " is not the brightest star, and four of those lack an alpha star altogether.

The flag of the Mercosur trading zone displays the four brightest stars.

The main asterism in Delphinus is Job's Coffin, formed from the four brightest stars: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Delphini.

This produced a commercially packaged white light giving 65 lm / W at 20 mA, becoming the brightest white LED commercially available at the time, and more than four times as efficient as standard incandescents.

The four brightest member stars of the Hyades are all red giants that began life as A-type stars and have now evolved off the main sequence.

The Large Magellanic Cloud was host galaxy to a supernova ( SN 1987A ), the brightest observed in over four centuries.

The four brightest stars in Corvus are mostly unremarkable.

It is the British Blue Ensign, incorporating a stylised representation of the Southern Cross showing the four brightest stars in the constellation.

After heliocentrism was revived by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century, Galileo Galilei discovered the four brightest moons of Jupiter in 1610, and documented their orbits about that planet, which contradicted the geocentric doctrine of the Catholic Church of his time, and escaped serious punishment only by maintaining that his astronomy was a work of mathematics, not of natural philosophy ( physics ), and therefore purely abstract.

Alpha Pegasi ( α Peg, α Pegasi ) is the third brightest star in the constellation Pegasus and one of the four stars in the asterism known as the Great Square of Pegasus.

Canopus is the most intrinsically bright star within approximately 700 light years, and it has been the brightest star in Earth's sky during three different epochs over the past four million years.

The historian Xi Zezong has claimed that this was a naked-eye observation of Ganymede in the summer of 365 BC, long before Galileo Galilei's celebrated discovery of the same in 1610 ( all four of the brightest moons are technically visible to the unaided eye, but in practice are normally hidden by the glare of Jupiter ).

All four stars are among the brightest 25 stars, having an apparent magnitude of less than 1. 5.

It is an irregular variable whose apparent visual magnitude varies between 4. 45 and 4. 64, and, at its brightest, it is the brightest of the four stars in the Terebellum.

Next we freeze over the oceans and cover the whole earth with peas, then we go out among the neighboring stars, collect 250 planets each the size of the earth, and also cover each of these with peas four feet deep ; ;

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

The High Command meets to discuss all issues, including those of a political nature, and is responsible for drawing up the list of generals from which the president chooses those who will be promoted to four stars.

The four main stars that form the asterism are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Crucis.

In Mapudungun, the language of Patagonian Mapuches, the name of the Southern Cross is Melipal, which means " four stars ".

Among Tuaregs, the four most visible stars of Crux are considered iggaren, i. e. four Maerua crassifolia trees.

The rhea's body is marked by the four main stars of Crux, while its head is Gamma Centauri and its feet are the bright stars of Musca.

Various peoples in the East Indies and Brazil viewed the four main stars as the body of a ray.

Torres Strait Islanders in modern-day Australia saw Gamma Centauri as the handle and the four stars as the trident of Tagai's Fishing Spear.

The Aranda people of central Australia saw the four Cross stars as the talon of an eagle and Gamma Centauri as its leg.

In fact, it only contains four stars above magnitude 5. 0.

There are four bright stars in Chamaeleon.

Early football stars such as Jim Thorpe, Paddy Driscoll, and Al Bloodgood were skilled drop-kickers ; Driscoll in 1925 and Bloodgood in 1926 hold a tied NFL record of four drop kicked field goals in a single game.

It stars Robin Williams as Jack Powell, a ten-year-old boy whose cells are growing at four times the normal rate, so at the age of ten he looks like a 40-year-old man.

Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

" James Berardinelli also gave the film three stars out of four, saying that " the intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise " and that the film " stands above any other filmed Grisham adaptation ".

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.

The stars were paid $ 75, 000 per episode in season three, $ 85, 000 in season four, $ 100, 000 in season five, $ 125, 000 in season six, $ 750, 000 in seasons seven and eight, and $ 1 million in seasons nine and ten.

In these observations, he discovered a fourth body, and also observed that the four were not fixed stars, but rather were orbiting Jupiter.

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 ...

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

Microsporogenesis involves a cell dividing twice ( meiotically ) to form four daughter cells.

The blind form of the Mexican tetra is different from the surface-dwelling form in a number of ways, including having unpigmented skin, having a better olfactory sense by having taste buds all over its head, and by being able to store four times more energy as fat allowing it to deal with irregular food supplies more effectively.

In its most basic form, bridge is a game played by two competing partnerships, i. e. four people.

In their current form, Olympic and other amateur bouts are typically limited to three or four rounds, scoring is computed by points based on the number of clean blows landed, regardless of impact, and fighters wear protective headgear, reducing the number of injuries, knockdowns, and knockouts.

From the start of 1948, the " big four " were nationalised to form British Railways ( latterly " British Rail ") under the control of the British Transport Commission.

In Spain, Antonio Soler also produced valuable keyboard sonatas, more varied in form than those of Scarlatti, with some pieces in three or four movements.

As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent — making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds.

The following table summarizes each of Chomsky's four types of grammars, the class of language it generates, the type of automaton that recognizes it, and the form its rules must have.

This is possibly explained by the fact that he sent out 60 arahants to the known world to spread his teaching ; however it differs in the fact that the Buddha taught that the four elements are false and that form is in fact made up of much smaller particles which are constantly changing.

According to Aristotle, the four elements rise or fall toward their natural place in concentric layers surrounding the center of the earth and form the terrestrial or sublunary spheres.

The four elements were arranged concentrically around the center of the universe to form the sublunary sphere.

The four elements were arranged concentrically around the center of the Universe to form the sublunary sphere.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

These four bases are attached to the sugar / phosphate to form the complete nucleotide, as shown for adenosine monophosphate.

Knucklebones was a skill game played by women and children ; a derivative form had the four sides of the bone receive different values and count as modern dice.

Together, the four areas form the traditional County Dublin.

These four families ( Ascoviridae, Iridoviridae, Phycodnaviridae and Polydnaviridae ) may form a clade but more work is needed to confirm this.

Hands three, four etc ..-the designated number of dancers form a ring and move around in the direction indicated, usually first to the left and back to the right.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

The estampie consists of four to seven sections, called puncta, each of which is repeated, in the form