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- Constellation (3718 bytes)
3: ...ation_map.png|thumb|300px|[[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] is a remarkable constellation, visible from mos...
4: ...close to one another into constellations. An "unofficial" constellation, that is, one that may be wide...
6: ...o recur frequently, e.g., [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] and [[Scorpio]].
8: ...ronomical Union]] (IAU) divides the sky into 88 official constellations with precise [[boundaries]], s...
14: ...more recent times this list has been added to, to fill gaps between Ptolemy's patterns. The Greeks con... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ...e [[moon goddess]] to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the...
41: ...Hera to let her go. Either way, Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo. A...
58: === [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]] ===
60: After leaving Eos, [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]] became a follower of Artemis. She eventually k...
61: ... to try to hit the barely visible speck (actually Orion's head) with an arrow from the shore. She succee... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
38: |'''[[WFPC2]]'''||wide field camera
47: The future of Hubble is currently uncertain. Its final servicing mission was cancelled following the ...
54: ...ervatory would have over ground-based telescopes: first, the [[angular resolution]] (smallest separati...
56: ...a committee given the task of defining the scientific objectives for a large space telescope.
58: ...ce program, and 1966 saw [[NASA]]'s launch of the first [[Orbiting Astronomical Observatory]] (OAO) mi... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
4: ...een stars and planets; as Stars remain relatively fixed over the [[century|centuries]], while planets ...
8: ...lineation]]s (such as [[Stonehenge]]) probably fulfilled both astronomical and [[religion|religious]] ...
14: ...ibe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their contents appear to be...
46: ...ment of [[precession]] and the compilation of the first star catalog. [[Ptolemy]] later referred to th...
62: ...iter (planet)|Jupiter]] in [[1610]]. This was the first observation of satellites orbiting another pla... - Giza pyramid complex (7332 bytes)
4: ...ith these royal monuments are the tombs of high officials and much later burials and monuments (from t...
20: ...lists, who were permanently employed by the king, filled the positions that required the most skill—...
22: ... carefully surveying the site and laying down the first level of stones, they constructed the pyramids...
24: ... The smooth exterior of the pyramid was made of a fine grade of white limestone that was quarried acro...
26: ...ruction the outer surface of the stone was left unfinished; excess stone was removed later. - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
9: ...e founded after his death, and, even after the unified empire dissolved a century and a half later, se...
11: ...d as the founder of [[Mongolia]] and an important figure in history of the [[Mongols]].
17: His early life was difficult: His father delivered him to his future wife'...
21: ...ang Khan]] of the [[Kerait]] tribe, for aid. B?'s first [[child]], [[Jochi]], was born suspiciously so...
27: ...Chinese had grown uncomfortable with the newly unified Mongols. Many trade routes ran through Mongol t... - Min (god) (6198 bytes)
2: ... of the raised arm'' (a reference to the shape of Orion), and usually depicted as such.
4: ...n later mythology was absorbed into the more significant (at the time) god [[Amun]], since Amun was as...
8: ...ge was taken out of the temple and brought to the fields in the ''festival of the departure of Min'', ...
10: ...ike substance when rubbed -- characteristics superficially similar to the [[penis]].
14: ...ke only waist-up photographs of Min, or otherwise find ways to cover his protruding manhood. However, ... - History of science in early cultures (11033 bytes)
3: ...communicated across generations with much greater fidelity. Combined with the [[Origins of agriculture...
6: ...|200px|[[Mesopotamian]] clay tablet [[492 BC]], [[Field Museum of Natural History]],[[Chicago]]. ([[Pa...
9: ...ennia before Pythagoras{{fn|1}}, [http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/achieve.html] but an abstract ...
11: ...late the [[precession]] of the [[Earth]]'s axis. Fifteen hundred years after Kiddinu, [[Al-Batani]], ...
16: ...a treatise from the [[6th century]], a summary of five astronomical systems can be found. - Star (12279 bytes)
9: ...nd [[Betelgeuse]], in the [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] [[constellation]], which have a diameter about ...
11: ...Eddington limit]] is part of the answer. The very first stars to form after the Big Bang may have been...
13: ...ies are [[brown dwarf]]s, which occupy a poorly-defined grey area between stars and [[gas giant]]s. Th...
15: Scientifically, stars are defined as [[Gravity#Self-gravitating_system|self-grav...
25: ...formed. One example of such a [[nebula]] is the [[Orion Nebula]]. - Taurus (constellation) (2696 bytes)
1: ...uriga]], to the southwest [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]], and to the southeast [[Eridanus (constellation...
5: One of the few [[apparent magnitude|first magnitude]] stars in the sky, the bright red [...
22: ...(with Virgo and Capricorn). It is one of the four Fixed signs (along with [[Leo]], [[Scorpio]], and [[... - Scorpius (3888 bytes)
6: ...ula]] (λ Sco), [[Jabbah]] (ν Sco), [[Grafias]] (ξ Sco), [[Alniyat]] (σ Sco), [[Alni...
14: ...yth, the constellation of [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] is almost opposite to Scorpius in the night sky...
16: ... there, and every time it appears on the horizon, Orion starts to sink into the other side of the sky, st...
18: ...tellation [[Eridanus (constellation)|Eridanus]]). Finally, [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] struck him down w...
25: ...cer]] and [[Pisces]]). It is also one of the four Fixed signs (along with [[Taurus]], [[Leo]], and [[A... - Gemini (3325 bytes)
15: ...ellation is easily viewable as two parallel stick figures considering faint stars visible to the nake...
17: ...area in the [[Zodiac]] sign of [[Gemini]] (i.e. [[Orion]], [[Auriga (constellation)|Auriga]], and [[Canis... - Propeller (12179 bytes)
1: A '''propeller''' can be seen as a rotating [[fin]] in water or a [[wing]] in air. The horizontal ...
2: ...mber four engine as part of preflight checks. The Orion is an [[Anti-submarine weapon|anti-submarine warf...
6: ...large portion of the blade is therefore at an inefficient angle, the inboard ends of the blade are sub...
9: ...k. Advanced control systems and better section profiling are required to counter the need for accurate...
11: ...e aircraft to back up on its own at unimproved airfields when aircraft tractors are unavailable. - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
22: ...e [[flower]]s are bright red, 3 cm diameter, with five petals (often more on cultivated plants).
43: ... represented offering the pomegranate. See also [[Orion (mythology)]].
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