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  2. Polaris Flare - Wikipedia

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    The Polaris Flare is a filamentous gas cloud in the Milky Way which is seen in the sky in the region of the constellation Ursa Minor and around the star Polaris. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The area on the sky is estimated at 50 square degrees. [ 1 ]

  3. Lens flare - Wikipedia

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    Lens flare on Borobudur stairs to enhance the sense of ascending. A lens flare is often deliberately used to invoke a sense of drama. A lens flare is also useful when added to an artificial or modified image composition because it adds a sense of realism, implying that the image is an un-edited original photograph of a "real life" scene.

  4. Satellite flare - Wikipedia

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    Satellite flare, also known as satellite glint, is a satellite pass visible to the naked eye as a brief, bright "flare". It is caused by the reflection toward the Earth below of sunlight incident on satellite surfaces such as solar panels and antennas (e.g., synthetic aperture radar ).

  5. Solar flare - Wikipedia

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    Solar flares were first observed by Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson independently on 1 September 1859 by projecting the image of the solar disk produced by an optical telescope through a broad-band filter. [50] [51] It was an extraordinarily intense white light flare, a flare emitting a high amount of light in the visual spectrum. [50]

  6. Flare (countermeasure) - Wikipedia

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    A flare or decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by an aircraft to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile. Flares are commonly composed of a pyrotechnic composition based on magnesium or another hot-burning metal, with burning temperature equal to or hotter than engine exhaust.

  7. Flare star - Wikipedia

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    A flare star with orbiting planet (artist's impression) Flare stars are intrinsically faint, but have been found to distances of 1,000 light years from Earth. [8] On April 23, 2014, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf, DG Canum Venaticorum.

  8. Totems Flare - Wikipedia

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    Totems Flare is the fifth studio album by electronic musician Chris Clark and the third one under the moniker Clark. It was released on 13 July 2009 by Warp . Track listing

  9. Boeing AH-64 Apache - Wikipedia

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    An early Hughes YAH-64 prototype with T-tail. After the AH-56 Cheyenne was cancelled in 1972 in favor of projects like the U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II and the Marine Corps AV-8A Harrier, the United States Army sought an aircraft to fill an anti-armor attack role that would still be under Army command.