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6 unusual facts about Antarès


Antares

The Wotjobaluk Koori people of Victoria, Australia, knew Antares as Djuit, son of Marpean-kurrk (Arcturus); the stars on each side represented his wives.

Antares (α Scorpii, α Sco, Alpha Scorpii) is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way Galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky.

Attack of the Killer App

Hubert J. Farnsworth announces that they will be delivering all the Earth’s recyclables to the Third World of the Antares system.

Balayang

Balayang was represented in the night sky by the star Antares.

General Aviation PJ

Five examples were operated by the US Coast Guard during the 1930s, named Antares, Altair, Acrux, Acamar, and Arcturus (hull numbers FLB-51 through FLB-55).

Grace Lutheran College

The interhouse teams wear their house colours, either white (Pegasus), blue (Phoenix), green (Orion) or red (Antares).


Ace Combat: Joint Assault

As the IUPF prepares to attack the silos, Antares Squadron is hired to pilot Andre Olivieri's personal Boeing 747-200B over Valahia-controlled territory.

Australian Atomic Energy Commission

Other significant facilities constructed by the Commission at Lucas Heights included a 3MeV Van de Graaff particle accelerator, installed in 1964 to provide proton beams and now upgraded to become ANTARES, a smaller 1.3MeV betatron, and radioisotope production and remote handling facilities associated with HIFAR reactor.

Dray Prescot series

The series is set on the fictional world of Kregen, a planet of the Antares star system in the constellation of Scorpio.

Effective temperature

A red star could be a tiny red dwarf, a star of feeble energy production and a small surface or a bloated giant or even supergiant star such as Antares or Betelgeuse, either of which generates far greater energy but passes it through a surface so large that the star radiates little per unit of surface area.

EuroBasket 2001 Women

The arenas, in which the tournament was held, were: in Orléans, Palais des Sports; in Le Mans, Antarès; and in Gravelines, Gravelines Sportica.

Landslip Hill

Verschuur claims that Otarehua is a placename near Tapanui and that it refers to the Māori name for Antares, and that this may be an indication that the bolide impact happened in the June Taurid meteor stream.

Sangolquí

It counts with a prestigious university ESPE, one of the best universities in the whole country, and schools like: Colegio Liceo del Valle, Colegio Antares, Liceo Naval Quito and "Émile Jaques-Dalcroze" High School which offers International Baccalaureate and it is an authorized centre for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations


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