On the border of the insignia, there are sixteen stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly Duke.

This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.

As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been the subject of a number of studies in the emerging field of asteroseismology.

Within constellations having an extremely large number of stars, Bayer eventually advanced to upper-case Latin letters, as in G Scorpii ( G of the Scorpion ) and N Velorum ( N of the Sails ).

The abundance of elements in the Solar System is in keeping with their origin from nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang and a number of progenitor supernova stars.

Elements heavier than iron are made in energy-absorbing processes in large stars, and their abundance in the universe ( and on Earth ) generally decreases with their atomic number.

The constellation contains a number of molecular clouds ( the Chamaeleon dark clouds ) that are forming low-mass T Tauri stars.

The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

This leads to the Great Filter, which notes that since there are no observed extraterrestrial civilizations, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.

) The original Drake Equation can be extended to a more realistic model, where the equation uses not the number of stars that are forming now, but those that were forming several billion years ago.

The alternate formulation, in terms of the number of stars in the galaxy, is easier to explain and understand, but implicitly assumes the star formation rate is constant over the life of the galaxy.

The number of stars in the galaxy now, N < sup >*</ sup >, is related to the star formation rate R < sup >*</ sup > by

These include the number of times a civilization might re-appear on the same planet, the number of nearby stars that might be colonized and form sites of their own, and other factors.

Whatever the proportion of stars with planets, the total number of exoplanets must be very large.

The Outsiders is notable for being the breakout film for a number of young actors who would go on to become major stars.

The age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that unless the Earth is very atypical, extraterrestrial life should be common.

Even if intelligent life occurs on only a minuscule percentage of planets around these stars, there might still be a great number of civilizations extant in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

The speculative equation factors in: the rate of star formation in the galaxy ; the fraction of stars with planets and the number per star that are habitable ; the fraction of those planets which develop life, the fraction of intelligent life, and the further fraction of detectable technological intelligent life ; and finally the length of time such civilizations are detectable.

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.

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

Spader was one of a number of prominent guest stars in " Search Committee ," the final episode of season 7 of The Office.

There are a fair number of bright stars, both single and double, in Lepus.

One of the difficulties in determining how good a player is at stealing bases is whether to judge the cumulative number of steals or the success ratio of steals to caught stealing.

In Coleman, Texas, a farmer named Reggie Lagow caught an animal in a trap he set up after the deaths of a number of his chickens and turkeys.

An example of this was a 1985 NFL game in which William Perry, wearing number 72 and normally a defensive lineman, was made an eligible receiver on an offensive play, and successfully caught a touchdown pass attempt.

In 1633 eleven ships managed to catch just 47 whales ; while a meager 42 were caught by the same number in 1635.

A large number of suspected smugglers are caught each year by customs worldwide.

Nonetheless, wild turtles continue to be caught and sent to market in large number ( as well as to turtle farms, to be used as breeding stock ), resulting in a situation described by conservationists as " the Asian turtle crisis ".

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

One critic argues that it is Kafka ’ s influence that can be seen most strongly in the novel: “ Like Kafka ’ s heroes, Yossarian is riddled with anxiety and caught in an inexorable nightmare – in his case created by Colonel Cathcart and the inevitability of him raising the number of missions he has to fly .”

Despite being a human and a criminal, he has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends, and often gets caught up in important events.

Proving successful at hunting, the group caught 26 arctic foxes in primitive traps, as well as killing a number of polar bears.

He is caught and imprisoned for five years in the Bagne of Toulon, the Toulon prison, and assigned the number 24601.

It is the " Crappie Capital of the World " – it has the highest number of crappie counted to have been caught of any other place.

On this occasion the men of Ombos had the worst of it ; and one of their number, having stumbled in his flight, was caught and eaten by the Tentyrites.

Ross caught pneumonia after a dunking in a fountain by a number of students with, according to Ross, the full support of a don, Arthur Augustus Tilley.

In the winter of 1854 – 55, 1742 whales were caught, but a normal winter's catch would only be half of this number or even less.

The Woodstock Movie camera crew even caught the band's opening number, " More and More ", as they took to the stage.

On 25 March 2008, an Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-300 was destroyed after engine number 3 caught fire soon after landing.

Various tournament rules state additional penalties for players or teams caught wiping, such as " 3-for-1 " ( calling the wiping player and the nearest two players out ) in PSP capture-the-flag, or a prescribed number of " penalty minutes " in XBall.

Under this system, unless people were caught in the act of committing crimes, they could not be tried for them until they had been formally accused, either by the voluntary accusations of a sufficient number of witnesses or by an inquest ( an early form of grand jury ) convened specifically for that purpose.

Despite being caught on CCTV concealing a book down his trousers he professes his innocence, then asks Anna if she wants his phone number.

Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of ' small ' motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors ( particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff ) into better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios.

An unknown number were also caught off Chile between 1932 – 79.

The number of women regularly drinking alcohol has almost caught up with men.

The " centrism " of the ILP, caught between the reformist politics of the Second International and the revolutionary politics of the Third International, led it to leading a number of other European socialist groups into the " Second and a Half International " between 1921 and 1923.