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  2. 100 baby names inspired by space - AOL

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    Space baby names inspired by the cosmos can help parents find a unique baby name. Space baby names for boys and girls are sure to be as special as your newborn! 100 baby names inspired by space

  3. List of stellar explosion types - Wikipedia

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    Luminous red nova, an explosion thought to be caused by stellar collision Solar flares are a minor type of stellar explosion [ 1 ] Tidal disruption event , the pulling apart of a star by tidal forces

  4. List of supernovae - Wikipedia

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    SN 1054 remnant (Crab Nebula)A supernova is an event in which a star destroys itself in an explosion which can briefly become as luminous as an entire galaxy.This list of supernovae of historical significance includes events that were observed prior to the development of photography, and individual events that have been the subject of a scientific paper that contributed to supernova theory.

  5. Spacecraft naming - Wikipedia

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    Finalist names were ranked by the public between March 23–29, 2009 from among Adventure, Amelia, Journey, Perception, Pursuit, Sunrise, Vision, Wonder, and Curiosity. [5] through a public poll on the NASA website. [6] On May 27, 2009, the winning name was announced to be Curiosity from the winning essay by Clara Ma, then a sixth-grader from ...

  6. Scientists find ‘perfect’ explosion in space that ‘makes no ...

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  7. List of astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia

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    KBC Void is an immense empty region of space, named after Ryan Keenan, Amy Barger, and Lennox Cowie. Mayall's Object is the result of a galaxy collision in Ursa Major, named after Nicholas Mayall. 9Spitch is a gravitationally lensed system of two galaxies in Cetus. It is named after Zbigniew "Zbish" Chetnik.

  8. 1970 in spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 13 was launched; after suffering an explosion in deep space it had to circumnavigate the moon and use the LM as a life boat. Apollo 13 was a successful disaster in which the crew survived. The Soviet space program continued its Luna program with Luna 17 , which delivered the robotic Lunokhod 1 rover to the lunar surface, and Luna 16 ...

  9. List of fictional spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    "The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set.