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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 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 ACC Norway: EPWW FIR Warszawa ACC Poland: ESAA FIR Suecia ACC Sweden: ESMM FIR Malmo ACC Sweden: ESOS FIR Stockholm ACC Sweden: EVRR FIR Riga ACC Latvia: EYVL FIR Vilnius ACC Lithuania: FABL FIR Bloemfontein ACC South Africa: FACA FIR Cape Town ACC South Africa: FACT FIR Cape Town ACC South Africa: FADN FIR Durban ACC South Africa: FAJO
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 ...
Ursa Minor (Latin for 'Lesser Bear', contrasting with Ursa Major), also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation located in the far northern sky.As with the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the North American name, Little Dipper: seven stars with four in its bowl like its partner the Big Dipper.
Polaris SnoCross is a snocross snowmobile racing game for Game Boy Color, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and later Microsoft Windows. It was released in 2000. It was released in 2000. French publisher Wanadoo Edition released a budget version of the game for the PC in 2001, called SnowCross .
The Polaris expedition of 1871–1873 was one of the first serious attempts to reach the North Pole after that of British naval officer Sir Edward Parry, who reached 82° 45′ N in 1827. Funded by the U.S. government, the expedition's notable achievement was reaching 82° 29′ N by ship, a record at the time.
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