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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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Alpha Crucis (research vessel)
Alpha Crucis is the most recent oceanographic research vessel in Brazil, replacing the older Wladimir Besnard research vessel.
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Alphacrucis
Alphacrucis College (AC, formerly Commonwealth Bible College and Southern Cross College) is a tertiary Christian liberal arts college.
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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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Beta Centauri
Beta Centauri (β Centauri, abbreviated Beta Cen, β Cen), also named Agena and Hadar, is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
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Beta Crucis
Beta Crucis (β Crucis, abbreviated Beta Cru, β Cru), also named Mimosa, is a binary star system; the second-brightest star in the constellation of Crux (after Alpha Crucis or Acrux) and the 19th-brightest star in the night sky.
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Binary star
A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycenter.
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Bow shocks in astrophysics
Bow shocks form the boundary between a magnetosphere and an ambient magnetized medium.
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Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.
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Celestial pole
The north and south celestial poles are the two imaginary points in the sky where the Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere.
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Chamaeleon
Chamaeleon is a small constellation in the southern sky.
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Circumpolar star
A circumpolar star is a star, as viewed from a given latitude on Earth, that never sets below the horizon due to its apparent proximity to one of the celestial poles.
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CoDominium
CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven.
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Crucis
Crucis may refer to.
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Crux
Crux is a constellation located in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way.
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Crux in Chinese astronomy
The modern constellation Crux is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts.
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Davidson High School (New South Wales)
Davidson High School, (abbreviation DHS) is a school located in Frenchs Forest, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Mimosa Street.
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Delta Crucis
Delta Crucis (δ Cru, δ Crucis) is a star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Crux.
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DL Crucis
DL Crucis is a variable star in the constellation Crux.
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Double star
In observational astronomy, a double star or visual double is a pair of stars that appear close to each other in the sky as seen from Earth when viewed through an optical telescope.
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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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Flag of Australia
The flag of Australia is a defaced Blue Ensign: a blue field with the Union Jack in the canton (upper hoist quarter), and a large white seven-pointed star known as the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter.
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Flag of Brazil
The flag of Brazil (Bandeira do Brasil), known in Portuguese as A Auriverde (The Yellow-and-green One), is a blue disc depicting a starry sky (which includes the Southern Cross) spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto "Ordem e Progresso" ("Order and Progress"), within a yellow rhombus, on a green field.
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Flag of Paraná (state)
The flag of Paraná, Brazil, was adopted on January 9, 1892.
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Fomalhaut
Fomalhaut, also designated Alpha Piscis Austrini (α Piscis Austrini, abbreviated Alpha PsA, α PsA) is the brightest star in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the sky.
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Gamilaraay
The Gamilaraay, also called the Kamilaroi are an Indigenous Australian people whose lands extended from New South Wales to southern Queensland.
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Gamma Crucis
Gamma Crucis (γ Crucis, abbreviated Gamma Cru, γ Cru), also named Gacrux, is the nearest M-Giant star to the Sun.
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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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Giraffe
The giraffe (Giraffa) is a genus of African even-toed ungulate mammals, the tallest living terrestrial animals and the largest ruminants.
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HD 108147
HD 108147 is a 7th magnitude star in the constellation of Crux in direct line with and very near to the bright star Acrux or Alpha Crucis.
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HR 4729
HR 4729 (HD 108250) is a multiple star system located about from the Sun in the constellation of Crux and part of the asterism known as the Southern Cross.
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James Dunlop
James Dunlop FRSE (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a Scottish astronomer, noted for his work in Australia.
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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 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 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 names in Crux
This is the list of the proper names for the stars in the constellation Crux.
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List of stars in Crux
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Crux, sorted by decreasing brightness.
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Mau Piailug
Pius "Mau" Piailug (pronounced; 1932 – July 12, 2010) was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging.
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Musca
Musca is a small constellation in the deep southern sky.
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Octans
Octans is a faint constellation located in the deep southern sky.
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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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The Enemy Stars
The Enemy Stars, is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in 1959 by J.B Lippincott in the US and by Longmans in Canada.
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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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Acrux, Acrux (star), Estrela de Magalhães, HIP 60718, SAO 251904, Α Cru, Α Crucis.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Crucis
