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A Million Open Doors
A Million Open Doors (1992) is a science fiction novel by American writer John Barnes, the first book of his Thousand Cultures series.
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A Voyage to Arcturus
A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by David Lindsay, first published in 1920.
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Achernar
Achernar is the name of the primary (or 'A') component of the binary system designated Alpha Eridani (α Eridani, abbreviated Alf Eri, α Eri), which is the brightest 'star' or point of light in, and lying at the southern tip of, the constellation of Eridanus, and the tenth-brightest in the night sky.
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Across the Pathways of Space
Across the Pathways of Space (Par les Chemins de l'Espace) is a collection of short stories in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science fiction series Valérian and Laureline created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
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Adventure into Fear
Adventure into Fear is an American horror comic book series published by Marvel Comics from cover dates November 1970 through December 1975, for 31 issues.
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Aldebaran
Aldebaran, designated Alpha Tauri (α Tauri, abbreviated Alpha Tau, α Tau), is an orange giant star located about 65 light-years from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Taurus.
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Aldebaran b
Aldebaran b is a possible exoplanetThere is a slight chance Aldebaran b may be an artifact of stellar activity of the parent star, so the chances of Aldebaran b being an exoplanet aren't 100%, but calculations have indicated that it may indeed be there.
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Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, abbreviated Alf Cen or α Cen) is the star system closest to the Solar System, being from the Sun.
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Ancient Greek astronomy
Greek astronomy is astronomy written in the Greek language in classical antiquity.
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Antares
Antares, also designated Alpha Scorpii (α Scorpii, abbreviated Alpha Sco, α Sco), is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius.
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Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance.
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Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial object is a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth.
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April 2014 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on April 15, 2014.
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Arcturos
Arcturos can refer to.
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Arcturus (band)
Arcturus is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991.
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Arcturus (disambiguation)
Arcturus is a star.
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Arcturus moving group
In astronomy, the Arcturus moving group or Arcturus stream is a moving group or stellar stream which includes the nearby bright star Arcturus.
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Arthur
Arthur is a common masculine given name.
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Asterism (astronomy)
In observational astronomy, an asterism is a popular known pattern or group of stars that are recognised in the night sky.
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Astriaal
Astriaal are an Australian Black metal band that formed in 1998, and are one of Australia’s highest-profile black metal bands.
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Astronomical Observatory (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
The University of Illinois Astronomical Observatory, located at 901 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was built in 1896, and was designed by Charles A. Gunn.
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Astrophysical X-ray source
Astrophysical X-ray sources are astronomical objects with physical properties which result in the emission of X-rays.
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Attic calendar
The Attic calendar or Athenian calendar is the calendar that was in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis.
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’u’
’u’ (beginning and ending with a glottal stop) is the first opera in the Klingon language, billed as "The first authentic Klingon opera on Earth".
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Östersund
Östersund (Staare) is an urban area (city) in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden.
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
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Bear worship
Bear worship (also known as the bear cult or arctolatry) is the religious practice of the worshiping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu,, pre-Christian Basques, and Finns.
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Bear's Son Tale
Bear's Son Tale (das Märchen vom Bärensohn, Bärensohnmärchen) refers to an analogous group of tales which according to 's 1910 thesis, represent the fairy tale material reworked to create the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf’s first part, the Grendel-kin Story.
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Behenian fixed star
The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and the Arab world.
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Biblical astronomy
The various authors of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh, or Old Testament) have provided various names to stars and planets.
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Big Dipper
The Big Dipper (US) or the Plough (UK) is an asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third magnitude.
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Boötes
Boötes is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere.
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Boötes in Chinese astronomy
The modern constellation Boötes lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the Azure Dragon of the East (東方青龍, Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng), and Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography.
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Bruce McAllister
Bruce McAllister (born in 1946) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
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C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina)
C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) is a Solar System comet that came close to the Earth on July 10, 2014, at a distance of.
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Capella
Capella, also designated Alpha Aurigae (α Aurigae, abbreviated Alpha Aur, α Aur), is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga, the sixth-brightest in the night sky, and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega.
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Century of Progress
A Century of Progress International Exposition was a World's Fair registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which was held in Chicago, as The Chicago World's Fair, from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial.
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Compass rose
A compass rose, sometimes called a windrose or Rose of the Winds, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.
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Constellation (disambiguation)
A constellation is formally any of certain areas of the celestial sphere, or popularly and traditionally a perceived pattern of stars.
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Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium
The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics, mythology (especially Germanic mythology) and pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm with the modern spherical Earth view of the solar system.
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David Stanley Evans
David Stanley Evans (28 January 1916 – 14 November 2004) was a British astronomer, noted for his use of lunar occultations to measure stellar angular diameters during the 1950s.
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Death Hawk
Death Hawk is a fictional American comic book character, a self-styled salvage expert in the 25th century.
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Death Sentence (short story)
"Death Sentence" is a short story by the American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
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Denebola
Denebola, also designated Beta Leonis (β Leonis, abbreviated Beta Leo, β Leo) is the second-brightest star in the zodiac constellation of Leo, although the two components of the γ Leonis double star, which are unresolved to the naked eye, have a combined magnitude brighter than it.
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Dionysos, Greece
Dionysos (Διόνυσος) is a town and a municipality in northeastern Attica, Greece.
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Dominion (2015 film)
Dominion (also known as Dominion: The Last Star Warrior) is a 2015 action, science fiction, thriller film directed by Richard Lowry.
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Duncan Lunan
Duncan Alasdair Lunan, born October 1945, is a Scottish author with emphasis on astronomy, spaceflight and science fiction, undertaking a wide range of writing and speaking on those and other topics as a researcher, tutor, critic, editor, lecturer and broadcaster.
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Earth (Foundation universe)
This article is on the history of Earth, as presented in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series, ''Robot'' series, and ''Empire'' series.
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Earth in science fiction
An overwhelming majority of fiction is set on or features the Earth.
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Earth Made of Glass
Earth Made of Glass (1998) is a science fiction novel by American writer John Barnes, the second book of his Thousand Cultures series.
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Earthlight (video game)
Earthlight is a scrolling shooter video game published for the ZX Spectrum in 1988 by Firebird Software.
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Edmond Halley
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley, FRS (–) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.
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Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos
The following tables and lists feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, that are often shared between works within that fictional setting.
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Eta Boötis
Eta Boötis (η Boötis, abbreviated Eta Boo, η Boo) is a binary star in the constellation of Boötes.
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Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae (η Carinae, abbreviated to η Car), formerly known as Eta Argus, is a stellar system containing at least two stars with a combined luminosity greater than five million times that of the Sun, located around 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) distant in the constellation Carina.
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Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos
The following fictional celestial bodies figure prominently in the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers.
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First magnitude star
First magnitude stars are the brightest stars in the night sky, with a magnitude of -1, 0 and +1.
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Frequency separation
Frequency separation is a term used in Helio and Asteroseismology for the spacing in frequency between adjacent modes of oscillation having the same angular degree (l) but different radial order (n).
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Galactic plane
The galactic plane is the plane on which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies.
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Gehenna (band)
Gehenna is a Norwegian black metal band.
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General Aviation PJ
The General Aviation PJ was a flying boat produced in the United States in the 1930s as a search-and-rescue aircraft for the Coast Guard.
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Giant star
A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main-sequence (or dwarf) star of the same surface temperature.
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Great Diamond
The Great Diamond is an asterism.
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Greek contributions to Islamic world
Greece played an important role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy, and also in the transmission of medieval Arabic science to Renaissance Italy.
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GWR Star Class
The Great Western Railway (GWR) Star Class of 2-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotives were used for passenger train work.
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Hari Seldon
Hari Seldon is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series.
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Hōkūleʻa
Hōkūlea is a performance-accurate waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe.
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Hebrew astronomy
Hebrew astronomy refers to any astronomy written in Hebrew or by Hebrew speakers, or translated into Hebrew.
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Herb Kawainui Kāne
Herbert "Herb" Kawainui Kāne (June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011), considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s, was a celebrated artist-historian and author with a special interest in the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaiokinai.
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Homo Sol
"Homo Sol" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Incandescent light bulb
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence).
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Infrared astronomy
Infrared astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that studies astronomical objects visible in infrared (IR) radiation.
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Inuit astronomy
The Inuit have traditional names for many constellations, asterisms and stars.
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J band (infrared)
In infrared astronomy, the J band refers to an atmospheric transmission window centred on 1.25 micrometres (in the near-infrared).
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Jean Picard
Jean-Félix Picard (21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand.
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John E. Arnold
John Edward Arnold (March 14, 1913 – September 28, 1963) was an American Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Business Administration at Stanford University.
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King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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Kukkuta Sastra
Kukkuta Sastra (also called Cock Astrology) is a form of divination based on cockfighting, commonly believed in coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Lego Space
Lego Space is a Lego theme that features astronauts, spaceships, and extraterrestrial life.
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Les Mauvais Rêves
Les Mauvais Rêves (italic) is the first album in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science fiction series Valérian and Laureline created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
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List of 2005 albums
The following is a list of albums released in 2005.
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List of biblical names starting with A
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – Y – Z.
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List of brightest stars
This is a list of the brightest naked eye stars to +2.50 magnitude, as determined by their maximum, total, or combined apparent visual magnitudes as seen from Earth.
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List of brightest stars and other record stars
This is a list of the brightest stars together with record holders of other categories with many details in compact form that can be compared.
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List of compositions by Alan Hovhaness
This is a list of compositions by Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), ordered by opus number.
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List of extremes in the sky
This article describes some extremes in the sky as a textual addition to the list of star extremes page.
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List of fictional United States presidencies of historical figures (P–R)
The following is a list of real or historical people who have been portrayed as President of the United States in fiction, although they did not hold the office in real life.
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List of Foundation series characters
This is a list of characters in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series.
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List of Foundation universe planets
This is a list of Foundation universe planets featured or mentioned in the ''Robot'' series, ''Empire'' series, and ''Foundation'' series created by Isaac Asimov.
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List of largest stars
Below is an ordered list of the largest stars currently known by radius.
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List of most luminous stars
Below is a list of stars arranged in order of decreasing luminosity (increasing bolometric magnitude).
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List of Nakshatras
In Hindu astrology, there are 27 or 28 nakshatras ("lunar mansions"), or sectors along the ecliptic.
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List of nearest bright stars
This list of nearest bright stars is a table of stars found within 15 parsecs (48.9 light-years) of the Sun that have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter, which is approximately comparable to a listing of stars more luminous than a red dwarf.
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List of planets in Marvel Comics
A-Chiltar III is a marshy planet (60% marsh, 40% prairie), and the atmosphere has a very high methane content.
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List of proper names of stars
This is a list of proper names of stars.
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List of selected stars for navigation
Fifty-eight selected navigational stars are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation.
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List of star extremes
A star is a sphere that is mainly composed of hydrogen and plasma, held together by gravity and is able to produce light through nuclear fusion.
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List of star systems within 35–40 light-years
This is a list of star systems within 35-40 light years of Earth.
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List of Star Trek planets (A–B)
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List of stars in Boötes
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Boötes, sorted by decreasing brightness.
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List of stars more luminous than any closer star
This is a list of stars which are more luminous than any closer star, that is, stars which emit more radiation than any other star within the same distance of the Sun.
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List of the most distant astronomical objects
This article documents the most distant astronomical objects so far discovered, and the time periods in which they were so classified.
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List of unnamed fictional presidents of the United States
This list forms part of the Lists of fictional presidents of the United States.
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Lyra
Lyra (Latin for lyre, from Greek λύρα) is a small constellation.
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Magnitude (astronomy)
In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object in a defined passband, often in the visible or infrared spectrum, but sometimes across all wavelengths.
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Mars (Doctor Who)
Mars, the fourth planet in the solar system, has been featured in the ''Doctor Who'' fictional universe on a number of occasions.
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Mars in fiction
Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century.
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third-person shooter video game series developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows, with the third installment also released on the Wii U. The fourth game was released on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2017.
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Mazda Capella
The Mazda Capella is a mid-size car that was manufactured by Mazda from 1970 to 2002.
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Megasthenes
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, c. 350 – c. 290 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period.
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Messier 3
Messier 3 (M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
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Music of Norway
Norway is a rather sparsely populated country in Europe (5 million inhabitants in an area of some excluding Svalbard and Jan-Mayen), but even so its music and its musical life are as complex as those of most other countries.
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Nabta Playa
Nabta Playa was once a large internally drained basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, 22.51° north, 30.73° east.
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Nakshatra
Nakshatra (Sanskrit: नक्षत्र, IAST: Nakṣatra) is the term for lunar mansion in Hindu astrology.
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Neck (Chinese constellation)
The Neck mansion (亢宿, pinyin: Kàng Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations.
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Order of Nine Angles
The Order of Nine Angles (ONA; O9A) is a Satanic and Left-Hand Path occult group based in the United Kingdom, but with affiliated groups in various other parts of the world.
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Orders of magnitude (length)
The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths.
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Orders of magnitude (volume)
The table lists various objects and units by the order of magnitude of their volume.
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Pelorus (instrument)
In marine navigation, a pelorus is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea.
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Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Planets in science fiction
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media of the science fiction genre as story-settings or depicted locations.
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Prominence and Demise
Prominence and Demise is the third full-length album by Norwegian progressive metal band Winds, released on September 4, 2007.
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Proper motion
Proper motion is the astronomical measure of the observed changes in the apparent places of stars or other celestial objects in the sky, as seen from the center of mass of the Solar System, compared to the abstract background of the more distant stars.
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Proper names (astronomy)
Some astronomical objects have proper names (common names, popular names, traditional names); as opposed to catalogue numbers or other systematic designations.
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Red clump
The red clump is a clustering of red giants in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram at around 5,000 K and absolute magnitude (MV) +0.5, slightly hotter than most red-giant-branch stars of the same luminosity.
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Red giant
A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses) in a late phase of stellar evolution.
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Return from the Stars
Return from the Stars (Powrót z gwiazd) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem.
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Rudens (play)
Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus, thought to have been written around 211 BC.
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Saille
Saille is a Belgian black metal band, formed in 2009.
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Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
The Basilica of St.
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Sirius
Sirius (a romanization of Greek Σείριος, Seirios,."glowing" or "scorching") is a star system and the brightest star in the Earth's night sky.
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Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens
The Skalnaté Pleso Atlas of the Heavens (Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso 1950.0) is a set of 16 celestial charts covering the entire sky.
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SkyWeek
SkyWeek was a weekly astronomy television program created by Sky & Telescope magazine.
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Spectral atlas
In astronomy, a spectral atlas is a collection of spectra of one or more objects, intended as a reference work for comparison with spectra of other objects.
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Spica
Spica, also designated Alpha Virginis (α Virginis, abbreviated Alpha Vir, α Vir), is the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo and the 16th brightest star in the night sky.
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Spring Triangle
The Spring Triangle is an astronomical asterism involving an imaginary triangle drawn upon the celestial sphere, with its defining vertices at Arcturus, Spica, and Regulus.
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Star Gazers
Star Gazers (formerly known as Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer) is a five-minute astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Foley Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.
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Starhawk (comics)
Starhawk (Stakar of the House of Ogord) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Stars and planetary systems in fiction
The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in many works of the science fiction genre.
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Stars in astrology
In astrology, certain stars are considered significant.
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Stationfall
Stationfall is an interactive fiction computer game written by Steve Meretzky and released by Infocom in 1987.
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Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics.
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Stellar designations and names
Designations and names of stars (and other celestial bodies) are currently primarily mediated in the scientific community by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a de facto authority.
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Stellar evolution
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time.
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Svati
Swati (Devanagari स्वाति, Transliteration IAST svāti, also found svātī́) According to some is a feminine noun of unknown derivation or ′su′ + ′ati′ (″Great goer″, in reference to its remoteness) meaning very beneficent.
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Svatopluk I of Moravia
Svatopluk I or Svätopluk I, also known as Svatopluk the Great (Latin: Zuentepulc, Zuentibald, Sventopulch, Old Church Slavic Свѧтопълкъ and transliterated Svętopъłkъ, Polish: Świętopełk, Greek: Sphendoplokos) was a ruler of Great Moravia, which attained its maximum territorial expansion during his reign (870–871, 871–894).
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T Boötis
T Boötis is believed to have been a nova.
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Table of stars with Bayer designations
This table lists those stars or other objects which have Bayer designations by the constellation in which those stars or objects lie.
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Table of stars with Flamsteed designations
This table lists those stars/objects which have Flamsteed designations by the constellation in which those stars/objects lie.
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Telephone numbers in Zimbabwe
To make a call from one town or city to another within Zimbabwe, a subscriber would dial 0, the trunk code, followed by the area code and the number required.
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The Armies of Memory
The Armies of Memory (2006) is a science fiction novel by American writer John Barnes, the fourth book of his Thousand Cultures series.
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The Hazing
"The Hazing" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
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The Hurlers (stone circles)
The Hurlers (Cornish: An Hurlysi) is a group of three stone circles in the civil parish of St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK.
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The Imaginary (short story)
"The Imaginary" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
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The Merchants of Souls
The Merchants of Souls is a 2001 science fiction novel by John Barnes and the third book in the Thousand Cultures series.
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The Outline of History
The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind", is a work by H. G. Wells that first appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and was published as a single volume in 1920.
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Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell is the fourth studio album by Norwegian experimental collective Ulver.
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Thomas Hornsby
Thomas Hornsby (1733 in Durham – 11 April 1810 in Oxford) was a British astronomer and mathematician.
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Timeline of the formation of the Universe
This is a timeline of the formation and subsequent evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang (13.799 ± 0.021 billion years ago) to the present day.
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Traditional Chinese star names
Traditional Chinese star names (Chinese:, xīng míng) are the names of stars used in ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology.
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Transit (Aaronovitch novel)
Transit is an original novel written by Ben Aaronovitch and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Trippet stones
The Trippet stones or Trippet stones circle is a stone circle located on Manor Common in Blisland, north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK.
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Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, commonly shortened to Tuska (pain, agony), is a Finnish heavy metal festival taking place annually in Helsinki.
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Ualarai
The Ualarai, otherwise spelt Yuwaalaraay, were an indigenous Australian people of New South Wales.
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UFO sightings in Norway
This article is a list of UFO sightings that were reported in Norway.
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USS Arcturus (AKA-1)
USS Arcturus (AK-18/AKA-1) was an named after Arcturus, a star in the constellation Boötes.
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Vega
Vega, also designated Alpha Lyrae (α Lyrae, abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr), is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.
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Virgo (constellation)
Virgo is one of the constellations of the zodiac.
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Walter D'Arcy Ryan
Walter D'Arcy Ryan (Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 17, 1870 – Schenectady, New York, USA, March 14, 1934) was an influential early lighting engineer who worked for General Electric as director of its Illuminating Engineering Laboratory.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Wergaia
Wergaia or Werrigia is an indigenous Australian language group in the Wimmera region of north-Western Victoria.
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What Mad Universe
What Mad Universe is a science fiction novel, written in 1949 by the American author Fredric Brown.
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Zhar (Great Old One)
Zhar (The Twin Obscenities) is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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61 Virginis
61 Virginis (abbreviated 61 Vir) is the Flamsteed designation of a G-type main-sequence star (G7V) slightly less massive than the Sun (which is G2V), located about 27.9 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo.
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88 modern constellations
In modern astronomy, the sky (celestial sphere) is divided into 88 regions called constellations, generally based on the asterisms (which are also called "constellations") of Greek and Roman mythology.
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16 Boo, 16 Boötes, 16 Boötis, Abramech, Alpha Boo, Alpha Bootis, Alpha Boötis, Alramech, Arctulus, Arcturis, Arcturos (mythology), Arcturus (star), GJ 541, Gliese 541, HD 124897, HIP 69673, HR 5340, LHS 48, SAO 100944, Α Boo, Α Bootes, Α Bootis.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus
