Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd...
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College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY. Clery, Daniel (2016). "U.S. lawmaker orders NASA to plan for trip to Alpha Centauri by 100th anniversary of moon landing"...
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Eta Centauri, Latinized from η Centauri, is a star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +2.35 and is located...
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the closest stars to the Sun, Alpha Centauri A (a Sun-like star that is one of two companions of Proxima Centauri), can be pictured by scaling down the...
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Sagan Planet Walk (section Alpha Centauri)
Alpha Centauri, the Sun's closest neighboring star, at the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center at the University of Hawaii. The addition of the Alpha Centauri Obelisk...
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analysis of what kinds of Orion missions were possible to reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Sun. His 1968 paper "Interstellar Transport"...
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the brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus is known as Alpha Centauri. For historical reasons, the Greek designations of some constellations...
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named by the Inca, was a llama extended from Scorpius to Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, in which those two stars formed the llama's eyes, or llamaq ñawin...
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events in this process include the publication of M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device in 1975 and a "call to arms" editorial by David Pringle and Colin...
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triangulated using the constellation Crux as well as the stars Alpha and Beta Centauri (about 30° counterclockwise from Crux) of the constellation Centaurus (arching...
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but even using LiD fuel it would be able to reach neighboring star Alpha Centauri in 100 years (approx. velocity of 13,411 km/s, at a distance of 4.5 light...
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Bohemia Interactive (redirect from Centauri Production)
publishers. Bohemia went on to acquire Black Element Software, Altar Games, and Centauri Production (a fourth IDEA Games member) in September 2010. Bohemia acquired...
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colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium, the room-temperature...
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main reason for its brightness, as with other near stars such as Alpha Centauri, Procyon and Vega and in contrast to distant, highly luminous supergiants...
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Zedda has suggested that the target is likely a star, quite possibly Alpha Centauri. Protonuraghes are considered to be the most archaic type; they differ...
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Bottle", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Soma Source Code "Spock's Brain", an episode of Star Trek: The Original...
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Gallicchio, Vincent S., eds. (1990). Lithium and Cell Physiology. New York, NY: Springer New York. pp. 25–46. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3324-4. ISBN 978-1-4612-7967-9...
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Bloody Knuckles. March 27, 2024. Retrieved March 28, 2024. "Sons of Alpha Centauri to release new studio album "Pull" on March 28th 2024". Grande Rock. January...
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Richard Hinckley (1963) [1899]. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-21079-0 – via LacusCurtius. Falkner, David...
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Archibald; Kip; Wheeler; J.A. (2008). Gravitation (27. printing ed.). New York, NY: Freeman. pp. 703–816. ISBN 978-0-7167-0344-0. Raine, Derek; Thomas, Edwin...
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naked-eye visible from Earth: the closest red dwarf to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is nowhere near visual magnitude. The brightest red dwarf in Earth's night...
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Aldhanab). Confusingly, Alnair was also given as the proper name for Zeta Centauri in an astronomical ephemerides in the middle of the 20th century. In 2016...
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for example: Henderson, Thomas (3 January 1839). "On the parallax of α Centauri". Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 11: 61–64, esp. 64. Bibcode:1840MmRAS...
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of these others are captured asteroids. Alpha It orbits the star Alpha Centauri A (only 4.2 ly from Sol). The Empire terraformed this planet to hold Earth's...
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Donatella; Matteucci, Fransesca (2007). "Contrasting copper evolution in ω Centauri and the Milky Way". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society:...
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Barefoot Navigator: Navigating with the Skills of the Ancients. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House. Tibbets, G.R. (1971). Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean...
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Guards, refers to an asterism consisting of α Lupi, γ Lupi, δ Lupi, κ Centauri, β Lupi, λ Lupi, ε Lupi, μ Lup, π Lupi, and ο Lupi. Consequently, the Chinese...
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has now come to refer to Beta Centauri. It is unclear whether the pair of stars was originally Alpha and Beta Centauri or Alpha and Beta Columbae. In...
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Temperature must also be considered as Venus and the planets of Alpha Centauri B (discovered in 2012), Kepler-20 (discovered in 2011), COROT-7 (discovered...
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detected a radio signal, BLC1, apparently from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Astronomers have stated that this and other...
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