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3 days ago · Epsilon Eridani ( Latinized from ε Eridani ), proper name Ran, [19] is a star in the southern constellation of Eridanus. At a declination of −9.46°, it is visible from most of Earth's surface. Located at a distance 10.5 light-years (3.2 parsecs) from the Sun, it has an apparent magnitude of 3.73, making it the third-closest individual star ...
4 days ago · Comet Kohoutek (formally designated C/1973 E1 and formerly as 1973 XII and 1973f) is a comet that passed close to the Sun towards the end of 1973. Early predictions of the comet's peak brightness suggested that it had the potential to become one of the brightest comets of the 20th century, capturing the attention of the wider public and the press and earning the comet the moniker of "Comet of ...
3 days ago · e. Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [6] [17] [18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of ...
23 hours ago · The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray () for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance.
Apr 15, 2024 · 326 Tamara ( Queen Tamar of Georgia) 344 Desiderata ( Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway) 359 Georgia ( King George II of Great Britain) 392 Wilhelmina ( Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands) 525 Adelaide ( Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV of the United Kingdom) 545 Messalina ( Messalina, Roman empress)
Apr 2, 2024 · OSIRIS-REx capsule. The OSIRIS-REx capsule shortly after its return to Earth in Utah, September 24, 2023. The capsule contained about 250 grams (9 ounces) from the asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx left Bennu on May 10, 2021, and began its journey to return its sample to Earth. The spacecraft made two orbits of the Sun and on September 24, 2023, it ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Permian–Triassic boundary at Frazer Beach in New South Wales, with the End Permian extinction event located just above the coal layer. Approximately 251.9 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic (P–T, P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and colloquially as the Great Dying ...
