Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

Both were scholastic stars in football, basketball, and baseball ( Mantle in Commerce, Okla., Maris in Fargo, N.D. ) ; ;

Demons, fairies, angels, and a host of other spiritual beings were as much a part of the experiential world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

During its 4-year run, the positions, parallaxes, and proper motions of 118, 218 stars were determined with an unprecedented degree of accuracy.

Additional catalogues were compiled for the 23, 882 double / multiple stars and 11, 597 variable stars also analyzed during the Hipparcos mission.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

He explained that though both sun and the stars were fiery stones, we do not feel the heat of the stars because of their enormous distance from earth.

Though Antlia was technically visible to ancient Greek astronomers, its stars were too faint to have been included in any constellations.

Chinese astronomers were able to view what is modern Antlia from their latitudes, and incorporated its stars into two different constellations.

Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.

Furthermore, epsilon Antliae, eta Antliae, and theta Antliae were incorporated into the celestial temple, which also contained stars from modern Pyxis.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Observations of such a star were made difficult by the limited field of view of Bradley and Molyneux's telescope, and the lack of suitable stars of sufficient brightness.

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

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

Traditionally, the stars were assigned to one of six magnitude classes, and Bayer's catalog lists all the first-magnitude stars, followed by all the second-magnitude stars, and so on.

Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.

The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.

Finally, the epoch of structure formation began, when matter started to aggregate into the first stars and quasars, and ultimately galaxies, clusters of galaxies and superclusters formed.

In what he called " first philosophy " or metaphysics, Aristotle did intend a theological correspondence between the prime mover and deity ( presumably Zeus ); functionally, however, he provided an explanation for the apparent motion of the " fixed stars " ( now understood as the daily rotation of the Earth ).

The first organization to call themselves all stars and go to competitions were the Q94 Rockers from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1982.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

In high school he was given his first oil paints and learned about his aunt Bessye Bearden's art salons, which stars like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes attended.

The stars of Ursa Major were all circumpolar in Athens of 400 BCE, and all but the stars in the Great Bear's left foot were circumpolar in Ovid's Rome, in the first century CE.

It was first postulated by Jan Oort in 1932 to account for the orbital velocities of stars in the Milky Way and Fritz Zwicky in 1933 to account for evidence of " missing mass " in the orbital velocities of galaxies in clusters.

Doppler first proposed the effect in 1842 in his treatise " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).

As of February 2012, NASA's Kepler mission had identified 2, 321 unconfirmed planetary candidates associated with 1, 790 host stars, based on the first sixteen months of data from the space-based telescope.

The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.

This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval.

In the first two series Mike's position is constantly under threat from senior reporter Brooke Vandenberg, who has a better press profile, but by the last series he has been cemented as one of the network's most valuable stars and considerably more effort is made to pander to his whims.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union.

The first aspect of the paradox, " the argument by scale ", is a function of the raw numbers involved: there are an estimated 200 – 400 billion ( 2 – 4 × 10 < sup > 11 </ sup >) stars in the Milky Way and 70 sextillion ( 7 × 10 < sup > 22 </ sup >) in the visible universe.

Soon after the first proto-galaxies formed, the hydrogen and helium gas within them began to condense and make the first stars.

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

God graced me with being able, through such a singular sign, to reveal to my Lord my devotion and the desire I have that his glorious name live as equal among the stars, and since it is up to me, the first discoverer, to name these new planets, I wish, in imitation of the great sages who placed the most excellent heroes of that age among the stars, to inscribe these with the name of the Most Serene Grand Duke.

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.

The " Emu in the sky ," a constellation defined by dark clouds rather than the stars.

Another consideration was that the Flag Resolution of 1777, which defined official United States flags, did not specify the arrangement of stars.

The mean magnitudes for these six stars were defined as: = = 0.

The stages of the process are well defined in stars with masses around one solar mass or less.

In high mass stars, the length of the star formation process is comparable to the other timescales of their evolution, much shorter, and the process is not so well defined.

That paper defined new processes for changing one heavy nucleus into others within individual stars, processes that could be documented by astronomers.

Visual double stars are defined as double stars which are visible in an optical telescope.

The position angle specifies the direction in which the stars are separated and is defined as the bearing from the brighter component to the fainter, where north is 0 °.

The pulsating stars swell and shrink regularly by stellar radius, magnitude and spectrum, most often with a defined period, sometimes semiregularly with an average period and amplitude, or a pseudoperiod.

This tight concentration of heavy stars gives the Hyades its overall structure, with a core defined by bright, closely packed systems and a halo consisting of more widely separated stars in which later spectral types are common.

In a cluster, stars all formed at approximately the same time, and thus in an H – R diagram for a cluster, all stars should lie along a clearly defined curve set by the age of the cluster, with the positions of individual stars on that curve determined solely by their initial mass.

A somewhat wider class of compact objects is sometimes defined to contain, as well as compact stars, smaller solid objects such as planets, asteroids, and comets.

He defined several differing types of presolar grains ( STARDUST from red giant stars, SUNOCONs from supernovae, NEBCONs from nebular accretion, and NOVACONs from novae ), but his suggestions lay dormant for a decade until these grains were discovered within meteorites.

** Ability to display stars and other celestial objects as seen from reference points other than the Earth ( e. g. Saturn, Phobos, comet C / 2006 P1 ( McNaught ) or any other object defined in ssystem. ini )

Somni Sengupta of the The New York Times, described it as " a carnivalesque genre packed with romance, swordplay and improbable song-and-dance routines " Roger Ebert gave the film three and half out of four stars and said, " Lagaan is an enormously entertaining movie, like nothing we've ever seen before, and yet completely familiar … At the same time, it's a memory of the films we all grew up on, with clearly defined villains and heroes, a romantic triangle, and even a comic character who saves the day.

* Aquarius ( constellation ), a defined area of the sky containing a group of stars

The largest star represents the Communist Party of China, while the four smaller stars represent the four social classes as defined in Maoism.

This number is reasonably well defined, since we know what stars are and what the observable universe is, but its value is not known with any certainty ( it is presently estimated to be approximately 70 sextillion ( short scale )).

Pole stars of other planets are defined analogously: they are stars that most closely coincide with the projection of the planet's axis of rotation onto the Celestial sphere.