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18947847. LC Class. PZ7.L9673 Nu 1989. Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction by the American author Lois Lowry about the escape of a family of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II. The story revolves around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lives with her mother, father, and sister Kirsti in Copenhagen in 1943.
In astronomy, stars have a variety of different stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names. Only a tiny minority of known stars have proper names; all others have only designations from various catalogues or lists, or no identifier at all.
Description and symbolism. A naked woman kneels by the water; one foot is in the water and one foot is on the land. [2] Above her head is one large star, representing her core essences, and seven smaller stars, representing the chakras. [3] The star is typically eight-pointed, but some late 15th-century depictions depict a six-pointed star ...
A star prime is a star number that is prime. The first few star primes (sequence A083577 in the OEIS) are 13, 37, 73, 181, 337, 433, 541, 661, 937. A superstar prime is a star prime whose prime index is also a star number. The first two such numbers are 661 and 1750255921. A reverse superstar prime is a star number whose index is a star prime ...
Astronomical naming conventions. In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few stars, and the most easily visible planets had names. Over the last few hundred years, the number of identified astronomical objects has risen from hundreds to over a billion, and more are discovered every year. Astronomers need to be able to assign systematic ...
The number seven was apparently the Egyptian symbol of such ideas as perfection, effectiveness, and completeness. Examples. Seven thousand barrels of red beer were used to trick Sekhmet out of killing. In her search for her husband's pieces, the goddess Isis was guarded by seven scorpions. A legendary famine lasted seven years.
A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, and this article covers only some of the more frequently quoted ones.
e. The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and emission nebulae. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index ...