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Local Bubble. The Local Bubble, or Local Cavity, [3] is a relative cavity in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Orion Arm in the Milky Way. It contains the closest of celestial neighbours and among others, the Local Interstellar Cloud (which contains the Solar System ), the neighbouring G-Cloud, the Ursa Major moving group ( the closest ...
Description. Alien is a role-playing game set in space in the far future that has two modes: Campaign: The usual role-playing milieu, where the gamemaster creates a "world" and a plot, then describes a situation or story hook to the players, who then indicate how their player characters react. [1]
Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A* ( / ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr / SADGE-AY-star [3] ), is the supermassive black hole [4] [5] [6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, [7] visually close to the Butterfly Cluster ...
This gave an isophotal diameter for the Milky Way at 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years), by assuming that the galactic disc is well represented by an exponential disc and adopting a central surface brightness of the galaxy (μ 0) of 22.1 ± 0.3 B-mag/arcsec −2 and a disk scale length (h) of 5.0 ± 0.5 kpc (16,300 ± 1,600 ly).
May 31, 2024 at 2:10 PM. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and ...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters premieres on Friday, July 12 at 9 p.m. ET on Hallmark Mystery. Tune in earlier at 7 p.m. that day to catch Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We ...
the summer Milky Way is highly structured; many Messier objects and globular clusters are naked-eye objects; M33 is easily seen with naked eye; limiting magnitude with 12.5" reflector is 16.5; 3 Rural sky 6.6–7.0 21.3–21.6 the zodiacal light is striking in spring and autumn, and color is still visible; some light pollution evident at the ...
New York (54-34) lost for the 12th time in 16 games and fell to 0-5-1 in its last six series. Abbott (8-6) was charged with one run and three hits in 6 1/3 innings, improving to 5-1 in his past ...