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Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years, and is located approximately 4 billion light years from Earth. [1] The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. [1]
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. [1] The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. [2]
This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England.
The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment in the Tex Murphy series of graphic adventure games produced by Access Software. After its creators reacquired the rights to the series, it was re-released on Good Old Games in July 2009.
Pandora by John William Waterhouse, 1896. In Greek mythology, Pandora [A] was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. [2] [3] As Hesiod related it, each god cooperated by giving her unique gifts.
[citation needed] [17] Manganese nodules and sediment, which was later found to contain micrometeorites, was collected from the ocean floor. [ 18 ] The primary thermometer used throughout the Challenger expedition was the Miller–Casella thermometer , which contained two markers within a curved mercury tube to record the maximum and minimum ...
The video game Starsiege: Tribes features an iconic map named "Scarabrae". The video game series Ultima includes the city of Skara Brae, which is on an island to the west of the main continent. It is devoted to the virtue of Spirituality, located next to a moongate and is the home of Shamino the Ranger.
The Pandoras Pass, also Brennans Gap and Pandora's Pass is a mountain pass across the Warrumbungle Range, [1] a spur off the Great Dividing Range, located in the Coolah Tops National Park in northwestern New South Wales, Australia.