• This is a list of the most distant individually seen stars discovered. Welch, Brian; Coe, Dan; Diego, Jose M.; Zitrin, Adi; Zackrisson, Erik; Dimauro...
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  • death stars, stargates and intergalactic barbarians". Polygon. Retrieved August 18, 2020. Bailey, Dustib (May 19, 2018). "Stellaris Distant Stars DLC comes...
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  • Distant Stars is a 1981 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American writer Samuel R. Delany. Many of the stories originally appeared...
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    once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to other distant stars (see below). Earth's rotation is slowing slightly with time; thus, a...
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  • Distant is a 2024 American science fiction comedy film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck and written by Spenser Cohen. It stars Anthony Ramos, Naomi...
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    but there are stars and quasars at arbitrarily great distances. The expansion of the universe causes the light from these distant stars and quasars to...
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  • looking at the stars. Your arms are resting freely at your side, and you see that the distant stars are not moving. Now start spinning. The stars are whirling...
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    List of exoplanet extremes Lists of astronomical objects List of most distant stars Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale...
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    independent motion of stars change in both relative position and in their distance from the observer. This can cause other currently distant stars to fall within...
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    type of short-term motion of distant stars Proper motion, a type of longer-term motion of distant stars Firmament Fixed stars, about the old concept of the...
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    astronomers to detect distant exoplanets from Earth. Theoretically, some of these methods can be used to detect Earth as an exoplanet from distant star systems...
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    Kuiper belt) called the "Whipple Mission" was proposed. It would monitor distant stars with a photometer, looking for transits up to 10,000 AU away. The observatory...
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    (parallax) of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars. By extension, it is a method for determining the distance to the star...
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    remaining stars in what is now the Milky Way formed. Nearly half the matter in the Milky Way may have come from other distant galaxies. These stars and clusters...
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  • from the sidereal day, which is one complete rotation in relation to distant stars and is the basis of sidereal time. In the case of a tidally locked planet...
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    stars or simply distant stars, still retaining the intuitive meaning of they being "fixed" in some practical sense. In Newton's time the fixed stars were...
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    obscuring interstellar dust. This dust blocks light from the more distant stars, which keeps them from being seen from Earth. Lying on the northwestern...
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    Astronomy (redirect from Stars and Planets)
    Universe. Parallax measurements of nearby stars provide an absolute baseline for the properties of more distant stars, as their properties can be compared...
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    of the Solar System, compared to the abstract background of the more distant stars. The components for proper motion in the equatorial coordinate system...
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    interstellar travel include detailed surveys of habitable exoplanets and distant stars, comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space colonization...
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    of binary stars and star clusters. William Herschel began observing double stars in 1779, hoping to find a near star paired with a distant star so he...
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  • smallest stars ever discovered. GY Andromedae — chemically peculiar variable star MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (or Icarus) — second most distant star, 9 billion...
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    consist of distant stars. Aristotle (384–322 BCE), however, believed the Milky Way was caused by "the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars that were...
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    improve the heliocentric model. In 1584, Giordano Bruno proposed that all distant stars are their own suns, being the first in centuries to suggest this idea...
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    open source software such as Celestia or Stellarium. Due to parallax, distant stars change their position less than nearby ones. For alien observers, the...
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  • both stars: Proxima Centauri, in relation to the Solar System Sun, in relation to Earth and humanity List of nearest stars List of most distant stars Astronomy...
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    from the Sun's surface out to the heliopause. Furthermore, all the distant stars, and much of interstellar space or intergalactic space is also filled...
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    rate. The plane of the orbit is not fixed in space relative to the distant stars, but rotates slowly about the Earth's axis. Typical Sun-synchronous...
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    magnitude 4.3, over 6,000 light-years from Earth. It is one of the most distant stars easily visible with the naked eye. β Cam is the brightest star in Camelopardalis...
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    America", which Wilde says is descended from a lost kingdom within distant stars in the Hyades. However, Hildred perceives his cousin Louis standing...
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