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91Nova — /noh veuh/, n. 1. Also called Nova Salmon. a Pacific salmon cured in the style of Nova Scotia salmon. 2. (l.c.) (loosely) any smoked salmon. Cf. Nova Scotia salmon. * * * Any of a class of stars whose luminosity temporarily increases by several… …
92Orion Nebula — Astron. a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion s sword. Also called Great Nebula of Orion. * * * Bright nebula, faintly visible to the unaided eye in the sword of the hunter s figure in the constellation Orion. About …
93Pleiades — /plee euh deez , pluy /, n.pl. 1. Class. Myth. seven daughters of Atlas and half sisters of the Hyades, placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion. One of them (the Lost Pleiad) hides, either from grief or shame. 2. Astron. a… …
94Roman Catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church. [1815 25] * * * Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world s population. The Roman Catholic church has… …
95scar — scar1 scarless, adj. /skahr/, n., v., scarred, scarring. n. 1. a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn. 2. a lasting aftereffect of trouble, esp. a lasting psychological injury resulting from suffering or trauma. 3. any blemish remaining as… …
96star — starless, adj. /stahr/, n., adj., v., starred, starring. n. 1. any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night. 2. Astron. any of the large, self luminous, heavenly bodies, as the sun, Polaris,… …
97sunspot — sunspotted, adj. sunspottedness, n. /sun spot /, n. one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena. [1805 15; SUN + SPOT] * * * Cooler …
98Beaumont, Francis — born с 1585, Grace Dieu, Leicestershire, Eng. died March 6, 1616, London British playwright. He is known chiefly for the 10 very popular plays on which he collaborated with John Fletcher (1579–1625) с 1606–13. These included the tragicomedies The …
99Gum Nebula — Largest known emission nebula in terms of how much of the sky it occupies as seen from Earth, extending over about 35° in the southern constellations Puppis and Vela. A complex of diffuse, glowing gas too faint to see with the unaided eye, it was …
100Omega Centauri — Brightest globular cluster, located in the constellation Centaurus. It has a magnitude of 3.7 and is visible to the unaided eye as a faint luminous patch. One of the nearer globular clusters (about 17,000 light years away), it is estimated to… …
