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.

Dream had fallen in love with a mortal, Killalla of the Glow, and had taken her to a gathering of stars ( literally the embodiments of various suns ).

In addition, objects in solar systems are only drawn to a distance of one light-year from their suns and Celestia does not consider the wobbling of some stars induced by their planets.

The number of suns in the Andalite star system is never specified, but the stars are always referred to in the plural sense.

Varilla replaced the stars in the blue canton with two interconnected yellow suns ; the suns represent North and South America, and are connected because of Panama's position connecting the two continents.

The fictional planet Lagash ( Kalgash in the novel adaptation ) is located in a stellar system containing six suns ( Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta are the only ones named in the short story ; Onos, Dovim, Trey, Patru, Tano, and Sitha in the novel ), which keep the whole planet continuously illuminated ; total darkness is unknown, and as a result so are stars outside the stellar system.

The original doors remain, decorated with a mixture of symbols representing stars, suns and people.

Demogorgon appears and speaks to the Earth, the Moon, and " Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods ,/ Ætherial Dominations, who possess / Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes / Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness ".

In 1584, Bruno proposed a cosmology without firmament: an infinite universe in which the stars are actually suns with their own planetary systems.

Permanently in a human form, he amassed a vast fortune by making stars, using advanced technology to create suns for clients.

In the same period, a number of writers inspired by Copernicus, such as Thomas Digges and Giordano Bruno, argued for an infinite or at least indefinitely extended universe, with other stars as distant suns.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

The constellation was created in the 18th century from an undesignated region of sky, so the stars comprising Antlia are faint.

A total of 1, 564 stars are so identified, out of approximately 10, 000 stars visible to the naked eye.

The gravitational weakening of light from high-gravity stars was predicted by John Michell in 1783 and Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796, using Isaac Newton's concept of light corpuscles ( see: emission theory ) and who predicted that some stars would have a gravity so strong that light would not be able to escape.

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.

The purpose of these shafts is not clear: they appear to be aligned on stars or areas of the northern and southern skies, but on the other hand one of them follows a dog-leg course through the masonry so there was not intention to directly sight stars through them.

Like the stars, the spiral arms rotate around the center, but they do so with constant angular velocity.

If so, these huge stars would have quickly consumed their supply of fuel and became supernovae, releasing heavy elements into the interstellar medium.

Elliptical galaxies are already largely devoid of this gas, and so form no new stars.

The peak radiation of most stars lies here, so the observation of the stars that form galaxies has been a major component of optical astronomy.

In some episodes, which had several major guest stars, the routine appeared several times in the show so that each guest would have the chance to be part of this tradition.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

However, the giant stars are much brighter than dwarfs and so, do not follow the same relationship.

The concentration of dust within molecular cores is normally sufficient to block light from background stars so that they appear in silhouette as dark nebulae.

They measured the moon's motion against the stars, so the 235: 19 relation may originally have referred to sidereal years, instead of tropical years as it has been used in various calendars.

I do but make bold to predict ( not that I guarantee the slightest thing at all ), thanks to my researches and the consideration of what judicial Astrology promises me and sometimes gives me to know, principally in the form of warnings, so that folk may know that with which the celestial stars do threaten them.

If the universe is static and populated by an infinite number of stars, any sight line from Earth must end at the ( very bright ) surface of a star, so the night sky should be completely bright.