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5 unusual facts about Nebula


Heavy Lord

In 2007 Heavy Lord supported Officium Triste and did a tour through Belgium and France following another support show with Nebula and some loose gigs in Germany and France.

Nebula

The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula (and spiral galaxies in general as "spiral nebulae") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble and others.

Samavayo

Samavayo was supporting many international acts such as Biffy Clyro, Nebula, Mustasch, Brant Bjork or The Kooks.

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

Rosse named the Crab Nebula, based on an earlier drawing made with his older 36-inch (91 cm) telescope in which it resembled a crab.

Williamina Fleming

In 1888, Fleming discovered the Horsehead Nebula on Harvard plate B2312, describing the bright nebula (later known as IC 434) as having "a semicircular indentation 5 minutes in diameter 30 minutes south of Zeta Orionis."


63 Ophiuchi

In 1983, astronomers from the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow, Russia identified a faint, shell-shaped nebula surrounding the star that was being excited by the star's energy.

Anambra State

Professor Samuel Okoye - was black Africa's first PhD in Radio Astronomy who along with Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge discovered the radio source of Crab Nebula neutron star.

Boomerang Nebula

In 2013, observations of the ALMA radio interferometer revealed other features of the Boomerang Nebula.

Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott called it the 'Boomerang Nebula' in 1980 after observing it with the Anglo-Australian telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory.

C59

Caldwell 59 (NGC 3242, the Ghost of Jupiter), a planetary nebula in the constellation Hydra

C68

Caldwell 68 (NGC 6729), a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Corona Australis

C92

Caldwell 92 (the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372), a bright nebula and star-forming region in the constellation of Carina

Chris C. Kemp

Chris C. Kemp (born Buffalo, NY) is the founder and CEO of Nebula, Inc., a cloud computing company that offers an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) openstack cloud system

Dark Empire II

Meanwhile, on the forgotten and nebula-hidden world of Ganath, Han Solo has to equip his damaged Millennium Falcon with an antique weapon called the Lightning Gun, hopefully sufficient to defeat Slave I and Boba Fett, who lurks beyond the cloud, waiting for Solo to escape.

Giovanni Battista Hodierna

He compiled a catalog of some 40 entries, including at least 19 real and verifiable nebulous objects that might be confused with comets.

Heroes in Hell

The first 12 books in the series were published by Baen Books between 1986 and 1989, and stories from the series include one Hugo Award winner and Nebula nominee, (Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg from Rebels in Hell), as well as one other Nebula Award nominee.

Herschel Space Observatory

The initial confirmation and later verification via help from ground based telescopes of a vast hole of empty space, previously believed to be a dark nebula, in the area of NGC 1999 shed new light in the way newly forming star regions discard the material which surround them.

Lemon slice nebula

The core of the nebula does not have a distinctly visible structure in formation and is mostly composed of ionized Helium.

Long-slit spectroscopy

In astronomy, Long-slit spectroscopy involves observing an elongated celestial object (such as a nebula or along the major axis of a disc galaxy at high inclination) through an elongated slit aperture, and refracting this light with a prism or diffraction grating.

Love Comes Again

, Nebula, Playground Music Scandinavia, Sirup, Media Records, Kontor Records, Independence Records

Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems

In the comics, the heroes first fought Thanos and Nebula (Infinity Gauntlet mini series), then The Magus and his Dopplegangers (Infinity War mini series).

McNeil's Nebula

McNeil's Nebula is a variable nebula discovered January 23, 2004 by Jay McNeil of Paducah, Kentucky.

Messier marathon

The Messier catalogue was compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier during the late 18th century and consists of 110 relatively bright deep sky objects (galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters).

Nebula Records

Nebula Records is a record label founded early 1973 by Detroit musician and record producer Scott Campbell while still in his teens.

NGC 281

Colloquially, NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to the video game character.

Northern Colorado Writers Workshop

Membership in the workshop is generally limited to professional and near-professional writers, and includes a number of Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy Award winners.

Ou Est La Rock?

While the quiet acclaim the album received from the rock media did not translate into huge album sales, it did enough to mark the band as one to watch, and also helped them make enough friends to get onto tours with Danzig, Unida and Nebula.

Ring Nebula

This nebula was discovered by the French astronomer Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix in January 1779, who reported that it was "...as large as Jupiter and resembles a planet which is fading." Later the same month, fellow French astronomer Charles Messier independently found the same nebula while searching for comets.

Rob Oswald

He has previously been a member of various bands, including Mondo Generator, Nebula, Buttsteak, Lee Harvey Keitel Band, Stress Magnets and Jade.

Robert Silverberg

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for the novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from the poem by William Butler Yeats; a Hugo in 1987 for the novella Gilgamesh in the Outback, set in the Heroes in Hell universe of Bangsian Fantasy; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another.

Rosette Nebula

Photographically the Rosette Nebula is easier to record and it is the only way to record the red color which is not seen visually.

Simeis 147

Simeis 147, also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, SNR G180.0-01.7 or Sharpless 2-240, is a supernova remnant (SNR) that may have occurred in the Milky Way, on the constellation borders of Auriga and Taurus.

The Andromeda Nebula

De facto name — The Andromeda Nebula: Episode I. Prisoners of the Iron Star.

The Bone Flute

Disapproving this situation, Tuttle sent a letter to Nebula Awards director Frank Catalano, asking to withdraw her story from the competition as a sign of protest, her complaints being that the awards weren't making sure that all items up for consideration were sent around to all the voters, also asking to disqualify works which were campaigned for by either the authors or the editors.

The Secret Place

:"The Secret Place" is also the title of the Nebula Award-winning short story by Richard McKenna


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