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clumpiness — clumpˈiness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑clump … Useful english dictionary
Planetary ring — Shepherd moon redirects here. For the Enya album, see Shepherd Moons. The moons Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the F ring of Saturn. A planetary ring is a ring of cosmic dust and other small particles orbiting around a planet in a flat disc… … Wikipedia
Vega — Starbox begin name=Vega Starbox image caption = Location of Vega in the constellation Lyra. Starbox observe epoch=J2000.0 constell=Lyra ra=RA|18|36|56.3364cite web author=Staff date=October 30, 2007 url=http://simbad.u strasbg.fr/simbad/sim… … Wikipedia
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Christopher Conselice — is an American Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Nottingham. Conselice received his bachelor s degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1996 and his PhD in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2001.[1] He… … Wikipedia
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nebula — nebular, adj. /neb yeuh leuh/, n., pl. nebulae / lee , luy /, nebulas. 1. Astron. a. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Cf. dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula … Universalium
neptune — /nep toohn, tyoohn/, n. any whelk of the genus Neptunea, esp. N. decemcostata, common along the eastern coast of North America and having a shell with seven to ten raised reddish brown spiral ridges on a pale beige or yellow background. [ < NL… … Universalium
Neptune — /nep toohn, tyoohn/, n. 1. the ancient Roman god of the sea, identified with the Greek god Poseidon. 2. the sea or ocean: Neptune s mighty roar. 3. Astron. the planet eighth in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 30,200 mi.… … Universalium
