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Fifty-seven navigational stars and additionally the star Polaris are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately six thousand stars visible to the naked eye under optimal conditions, these selected stars are among the brightest and span thirty-eight constellations of the celestial sphere from the ...
Polaris is minutes from blue ribbon trout streams, hundreds of snowmobile and cross-country ski trails, and trail heads to mountain lakes. Hay, horse, and cattle production are among the major industries in Polaris, along with a rise in tourism and recreation. Originally, Polaris was a mining town with a general store, post office, and saloon.
Polaris components as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Polaris Aa is an evolved yellow supergiant of spectral type F7Ib with 5.4 solar masses (M ☉). It is the first classical Cepheid to have a mass determined from its orbit.
Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program.Launched 10 September 2024 as the 14th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman and his crew of three — Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — flew in an elliptic orbit that took them 1,400 kilometers ...
Little Cornwallis Island was the home to Polaris Mine, the most poleward base-metal mine in the world. In 1960 a vast concentration of zinc and lead was discovered on the island during mapping for oil permits. Cominco acquired land in the area and a gravity survey in 1970 detected a large anomaly. By 1973 surface drilling and underground ...
Polaris-1, a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile, which is commonly known as KN-11 by the West and Pukkuksong-1 (Pukkuksong means Polaris in Korean) in North Korea UGM-27 Polaris , an early United States submarine-launched ballistic missile that was also used by United Kingdom
Bombus polaris is a common Arctic bumblebee species. [1] B. polaris is one of two bumblebees that live above the Arctic Circle. [1] The other is its social parasite Bombus hyperboreus. [1] B. polaris is a social bee that can survive at near freezing temperatures. [1] It has developed multiple adaptations to live in such cold temperatures.
Screenshot. Rune Knudsen is a Norwegian biologist and the protagonist living at the American exploratory oil facility/research station Alpha Polaris in Greenland.Among the crew is Al Schaumann, the leader of the station, Tully Crean, a coarse and somewhat obnoxious handyman, Alistair Euler, the arrogant son of the company's CEO who arrives for a sudden unscheduled inspection and Nova whom Rune ...