The ecliptic is the path the Sun appears to trace through the stars.

As seen from Earth, the hemisphere of the Moon that is facing the Earth ( the near side ) is almost fully illuminated by the Sun and appears round.

A Russian study suggests that the decay rate of radioactive isotopes is not constant as is commonly believed, and a recent study also finds this, and says it appears to be affected by the rate of neutrinos emitted by the Sun.

The Chinese remainder theorem appears as an exercise in Sun Zi's Suan Ching ( also known as The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi ( 3rd, 4th or 5th century CE.

It appears that the calendar was designed to align the lunations with the agricultural cycle of vegetation, and that the exact astrological position of the Sun at that time was considered less important.

* In The Divine Comedy the spirit of Solomon appears to Dante Alighieri in the Heaven of the Sun with other exemplars of inspired wisdom.

As a result, on the day of the solstice the Sun appears to have reached its highest or lowest annual altitude in the sky above the horizon at local solar noon.

Other authors use Zodiac to mean ecliptic, which first appears in a gloss of unknown author in a passage of Cleomedes where he is explaining that the Moon is in the zodiacal circle as well and periodically crosses the path of the Sun.

Given its stability, similarity and relative proximity to the Sun, Tau Ceti is consistently listed as a target for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ), and it appears in some science fiction literature.

Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, diffuse white glow seen in the night sky that appears to extend up from the vicinity of the Sun along the ecliptic or zodiac.

The Vergina Sun, the 16-ray star covering what appears to be the royal burial larnax of Philip II of Macedon, discovered in Vergina, Greece.

Another way to see this difference is to notice that, relative to the stars, the Sun appears to move around the Earth once per year.

Sun Quan appears as a playable character in Koei's Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi video game series.

East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise.

The word " tropic " itself comes from the Greek τροπή ( tropi ), meaning turn, referring to the fact that the Sun appears to " turn back " at the solstices.

A cloaked, mirror-faced figure appears in John Coney's 1974 Sun Ra vehicle, Space Is the Place and Janelle Monáe's video for " Tightrope ".

A terrible storm raged for seven days, " the huge boat had been tossed about on the great waters ," then Utu ( Sun ) appears and Ziusudra opens a window, prostrates himself, and sacrifices an ox and a sheep.

** Although some believe the New Jerusalem appears as a silhouette across the Sun, it does not appear clearly enough to be certain and may instead be the tops of The Moon's mountains.

In other words, as seen from an observer on the superior planet at opposition, the Earth appears at inferior conjunction with the Sun.

In astronomy, a crescent is the shape of the lit side of a spherical body ( most notably the Moon ) that appears to be less than half illuminated by the Sun as seen by the viewer.

The wish is soon granted: Socrates appears overhead, wafted in a basket at the end of a rope, the better to observe the Sun and other meteorological phenomena.

Although stability is restored temporarily, the last Wu ruler Sun Hao appears to be a tyrant who does not make any efforts to strengthen his kingdom.

* The Hermitage appears in the video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, as you find it being attacked by the Empire of the Rising Sun, in the Soviet campaign.

The Messier 80 globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius is located about 28, 000 light-year s from the Sun and contains hundreds of thousands of stars.

Tau Ceti ( τ Cet, τ Ceti ) is a star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, although it has only about 78 % of the Sun's mass.

As seen from Tau Ceti, the Sun would be a third-magnitude star in the constellation Boötes .< ref group =" nb "> From Tau Ceti the Sun would appear on the diametrically opposite side of the sky at the coordinates RA =, Dec =, which is located near Tau Boötis.

From the perspective of an observer on a hypothetical planet around Vega, the Sun would appear as a faint 4. 3 magnitude star in the Columba constellation.

The Babylonian calendar as it stood in the 7th century BC assigned each month to a sign, beginning with the position of the Sun at vernal equinox, which, at the time, was depicted as the Aries constellation (" Age of Aries "), for which reason the first sign is still called " Aries " even after the vernal equinox has moved away from the Aries constellation due to the slow precession of the Earth's axis of rotation.

Here is an example: a person born on, say August 28, 2002 would come to understand that his / her Sun sign was in Virgo according to western astrology ( conventional Sun sign dates August 23, to September 22, of every year ), but Sun on that same calendar date of the year 2002 was in the constellation Leo ( where it had been since August 10, 2002 and would remain until September 15, when it would then finally cross into Virgo ).

When it was named, the Sun was also in the direction of the constellation Cancer ( Latin for crab ).

Eta Carinae ( η Carinae or η Car ) is a stellar system in the constellation Carina, about 7, 500 to 8, 000 light-years from the Sun.

It is the nearest star in the southern constellation Sagittarius, and one of the closest to the Sun.

The Fasli, Qadimi and the Shahanshahi all ( notionally ) start each of the 30 day long months with the Sun entering a new constellation, similar to the Vedic ( Hindu ) Solar calendars as reflected in the Jyotisha ( Vedic Astrology ), and the Armenian calendar, but different from the Iranian ( Jalaali ) Calendar, the Julian Calendar, the Mayan Haab Calendar and the French Revolutionary Calendar, whose epochs of the months are fixed to the equinoxes / solstices, as are the signs of Western Astrology.

The Qadimi ( traditional ) Zoroastrian calendar puts the month of Dae ( pronounced " Day ") with the Sun entering the constellation of Taurus ( specifically the Pleiades ); thus apparently ( theory ) recalling the time of the origination of the zoroastrian calendar, and its relation to the discovery of the precession.

Columba is the constellation that is at the solar antapex-the Earth ( and Sun ) is moving away from its direction as the solar system moves through space.

V838 Monocerotis ( V838 Mon ) is a red variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20, 000 light years ( 6 kpc ) from the Sun, and possibly one of the largest known stars.

From 40 Eridani, 16 light years away, the Sun would be an average looking star of about apparent magnitude 3. 3 in the constellation Serpens Caput.

From a planet orbiting Aldebaran, 65 light years away, the Sun would appear slightly above Antares in our constellation Scorpius, and at magnitude 6. 4 would barely be visible to the naked eye.

Sankranthi () means transmigration of the Sun from one Rāshi ( constellation of the zodiac in Indian astronomy ) to the next.

The only star that does not belong to a constellation is the Sun.

Van Maanen's star is located from the Sun in the constellation Pisces, about 2 ° to the south of the star Delta Piscium, with a relatively high proper motion of 2. 98 ″ annually.

NGC 188 is very close to the North Celestial Pole, under five degrees away, and in the constellation of Cepheus at an estimated 5, 000 light year distance, this puts it slightly above the Milky Way's disc and further from the center of the galaxy than the Sun.

In astrology, an astrological age has usually been defined by the constellation or superimposed sidereal zodiac in which the Sun actually appears at the vernal equinox.