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2 unusual facts about galactic


Jim Krueger

Other comic book writing includes the award-winning Earth X trilogy with Alex Ross for Marvel Comics, as well as Avengers, X-Men, Star Wars, The Matrix Comics, Micronauts, Galactic, and Batman, Krueger And Alex Ross co wrote Justice, and Avengers/Invaders, Project Superpowers (dynamite press)

The Dreadnaught Factor

Each Dreadnaught approached the "Galactic Unstable Energy Field," which acted as a defensive line.


Across the Sea of Suns

Now the leader, Nigel vetoes suggestions that they return to Earth and quoting Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ("Le's all slide out of here one of these nights and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns over in the territory and I says all right, that suits me.") energizes everyone for a voyage to the Galactic Center, the most important place of all for the machines.

Ainur

AINUR (Atlas of Images of Nuclear Rings), catalogue of star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei

Andrea M. Ghez

in October 2012, a second star was identified by her team at UCLA, S0-102, orbiting the Galactic Center.

Blaster Learning System

In 1999, coinciding with the CBS Saturday Morning cartoon "Blaster's Universe" produced by Nelvana and Teletoon, the characters once again changed, probably to be more identifiable as people, with Blasternaut becoming Max Blaster, a 12-year old boy obsessed with science and space in the 21st century, and his Galactic Commander becoming G.C., a cool 12-year-old girl who looks like an earthling but is really an alien.

Budi Margono

Investing time heavily in green energy, battery car technology, support mission of virgin galactic, built by Richard Branson to continue develop manned space shuttle tourism.

Carl Charlier

Related to his work on galactic structure, he also developed a cosmological theory based on the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert.

Cities in Flight

An alien culture is also investigating this phenomenon, which will shortly accelerate to engulf all galactic space; in other words, the colliding universes will end in a transition in between the Big Bang and Big Crunch.

Constance Adams

Partnered with Synthesis International, URS and Foster+Partners, Adams worked on the design of the world's first commercial spaceport terminal, the Spaceport America Terminal Facility, for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority and tenant Virgin Galactic.

Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre

The musical lineup included Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs, Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Review, Taj Mahal, CAKE and Galactic.

Cuspy halo problem

One approach to solving the cusp-core problem in galactic halos is to consider models that modify the nature of dark matter; theorists have considered warm, fuzzy, self-interacting, and meta-cold dark matter, among other possibilities.

Deucalion

In the anime series Kiddy Grade, Deucalion is the name given to a massive ship that was intended to take the upper class of the galaxy away to a new space where they believed they could escape the growing revolutionary movements rippling through the galactic government.

Dover Heights, New South Wales

The CSIRO further used the site for pioneering experimentation in radio astronomy related to galactic radio emissions, with a team including John Gatenby Bolton first observing solar emissions in 1945.

Drop Trio

They cite musical influences from Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Miles Davis, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Meters, Galactic, Horacio Hernandez, and more unexpected influences from the rock genre such as Yes, Rush, Primus, King Crimson and The Beatles.

Extragalactic planet

A team of scientists has used gravitational microlensing to come up with a tentative detection of an extragalactic exoplanet in Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbour.

Fog City Records

Founded in 1996 by producer/engineer Dan Prothero, the label's first release was the highly successful "Coolin' Off" which launched the career of New Orleans based funk band Galactic.

Fornax Dwarf

This leads to two open questions: Why do dwarf spheroidals allow the formation of globular clusters like Fornax 4 and Terzan 7 (of Sagittarius dwarf) long after globular clusters ceased to form in the main body of the Galactic halo?

Founders Brewing Company

2011: Galactic, Rubblebucket, Terrapin Flyer with Melvin Seals, The Ragbirds, Steppin' In It, AB & Coconut Brown, FBC All-Stars (All-Founders-Employee Supergroup), DJ Spydre Murphy

Francis Hsueh and Steven Hahn

In late 2006, inspired by news of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism company (scheduled to be launched in 2009), Hsueh and Hahn completed their second feature-length script, Leo of St. George and the Air Galactic.

Galactic Civilizations

Galactic Civilizations was first developed for OS/2 in April 1993 by Brad Wardell.

Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords

According to Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell, as of March 2008, Galactic Civilizations II has sold around 300,000 copies in total, bringing in an eight-figure revenue, on a development budget of less than $1 million.

Galactic empire

Isaac Asimov stated explicitly that the Galactic Empire whose fall is depicted in his Foundation Series is modeled on the Roman Empire.

Galactic Patrol

Prime Base is the tremendous military base that first grew from "The Hill", a man-made, flat-topped, steel sheathed mountain that was the main base of first, the Triplanetary Service, and then of the new Galactic Patrol on Tellus.

Grand admiral

The Galactic Empire's Grand Admiral Thrawn, of the Timothy Zahn novels, is one such science fiction character who held this highest of naval ranks.

HD 122563

As the most extreme metal-poor star known, HD 122563's composition was crucial in constraining theories for galactic chemical evolution; in particular, its composition peculiarities provided signposts for understanding the accumulation of heavy elements by stellar nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy.

Jacen Solo

A mysterious fleet led by Admiral Daala, loyal to Pallaeon, appears, accompanied by 100 Mandalorian mercenaries, and together, owing to Daala's experimental weapons, they send the Galactic Alliance Fleet into retreat.

Kees Boeke

He is best known for his popular essay/book Cosmic View (1957) which presents a seminal view of the universe, from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and inspired several films.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes release history

Game(Family Computer) Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars by KEMCO

Middle World

Middle World, a term coined by Richard Dawkins, is used to describe the realm between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms and the larger view of the universe at the galactic and universal level.

Moon 44

The others return safely to Earth, where Stone informs the Galactic Mining Chairman (Roscoe Lee Browne) that Lee was bribed by Pyrite to redirect the mining shuttles to a planet in the Outer Zone.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

NESARA

According to some Ascended Master Teaching proponents such as Joshua David Stone, Sheldan Nidle, and Luis Prada, Sananda is the "galactic name" of Ascended Master Jesus, which he uses in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Ashtar Command flying saucer fleet.

Samus Aran

In Metroid, the Galactic Federation sends Samus to track down the Space Pirates on their home planet of Zebes.

Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus Aran is an ex-Galactic Federation soldier who turned into an intergalactic bounty hunter, usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include directed energy weapons and missiles.

Seven rays

According to Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme, the seven rays are focused to the Solar Logos, through Sirius, the seven stars of the Big Dipper in the Great Bear, and the seven major stars of the Pleiades form the "Galactic Logos," (the consciousness of the "Divine Being" of the Milky Way Galaxy), and have their ultimate origin within the mind of God.

Star cluster

In 1917, the astronomer Harlow Shapley was able to estimate the Sun's distance from the galactic centre based on the distribution of globular clusters; previously the Sun's location within the Milky Way was by no means well established.

Stavros Fasoulas

For the Amiga Fasoulas made a game called Galactic, slightly resembling Bubble Bobble.

Summitville mine

Robert Friedland, the chairman of Galactic Resources Ltd. paid around $30 million in settlement.

Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

March 28, 2011: Swift detected GRB 110328A, which subsequent analysis showed to possibly be the signature of a star being disrupted by a black hole or the ignition of an active galactic nucleus.

The Late, Late, Late Show

#"Galactic Chicken Shit" – 2:19 "(This is an early version of "Slit My Wrist", seen on Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls)"

The Uplift War

The ecologically sensitive galactic civilization killed all Bururalli, demoted their patrons, the Nahalli, to clients of the Thennanin, and began working to preserve and repair the remaining ecosphere of Garth.

Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights

Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights is the second novel in the Tommy Storm series, written by Irish author A.J. Healy.

Transnational progressivism

In John Ringo's military science fiction series Legacy of the Aldenata, the Aldenata are described disparagingly as "galactic tranzis".

USS Enterprise

VSS Enterprise, the first commercial spaceship being constructed by Virgin Galactic.

VSS Enterprise

The passenger-carrying commercial launches will initially occur at Virgin Galactic's launch pad at Spaceport America, near Upham, New Mexico.

Z with stroke

Also, the popular British TV show Doctor Who uses ƶ as the symbol for the unit of money, Galactic Credits.

Zenon: Z3

During the last competition for the Galactic Teen Supreme contest, the moon goddess Selene appears and threatens to destroy the Earth.

Zub

Zub is in the employ of Emperor Zub of the Zub galactic empire who has been tasked with retrieving the Green Eye of Zub.


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