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The discovery of the star in the Milky Way Galaxy suggests that the galaxy may be at least 3 billion years older than previously thought. [265] [266] [267] Several individual stars have been found in the Milky Way's halo with measured ages very close to the 13.80-billion-year age of the Universe.
It looks star-like and without a visible disk even in large telescopes, [175] because its angular diameter is maximum 0.11". [ 3 ] The earliest maps of Pluto, made in the late 1980s, were brightness maps created from close observations of eclipses by its largest moon, Charon.
Firearms chambered for the 7.63mm Mauser cartridge include the pistol for which it was designed, the Mauser C96 in all variants and copies, the Astra Model 900 and variants, the Schwarzlose Model 1898, the 1911-pattern Star models A and M, [2] and a handful of pre-World War II submachine guns such as the Swiss Bergmann M/20 exported to China ...
Hawking's final broadcast interview, about the detection of gravitational waves resulting from the collision of two neutron stars, occurred in October 2017. [337] His final words to the world appeared posthumously, in April 2018, in the form of a Smithsonian TV Channel documentary entitled, Leaving Earth: Or How to Colonize a Planet .
The star, or Sun, is often shown within the arc of the crescent (also called star in crescent, or star within crescent, for disambiguation of depictions of a star and a crescent side by side). [8] In numismatics in particular, the term crescent and pellet is used in cases where the star is simplified to a single dot.
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman [5] was born on September 1, 1996, in Oakland, California, to teachers Claire Stoermer [6] and Kazembe Ajamu Coleman. [7] Her father is African-American, with Nigerian ancestry; her mother has German and Scottish ancestry.
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll [a] (/ ʃ ə ˈ k ɪər ə / shə-KEER-ə, Spanish: [ʃaˈkiɾa isaˈβel meβaˈɾak riˈpol]; born 2 February 1977) [1] is a Colombian singer-songwriter. . Referred to as the "Queen of Latin Music", she has had a significant impact on the musical landscape of Latin America and has been credited with popularizing Hispanophone music on a global level.