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unusual facts about star system



Deuteros

New technology will allow the player to construct SCGs (star-class galleons) and travel to Proxima Centauri, the first of the seven star systems that have to be conquered.

Independent Moving Pictures

At a time when leading screen players worked anonymously, IMP performers Florence Lawrence, formerly known as "The Biograph Girl," and King Baggot became the first "movie stars" to be given billing and screen credits, a marquee as well as promotion in advertising, which contributed to the creation of the star system.

Mark III Stellar Interferometer

The Mark III interferometer was used to resolve a number of spectroscopic binary systems, including Alpha Andromedae, Phi Cygni, and many others.


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Battle of Wolf 359

The battle occurs at the star Wolf 359, a real star system located 7.78 light years from Earth's solar system, and constitutes a total loss for the Federation, after the single attacking Borg ship obliterates the opposing fleet and proceeds to Earth without significant damage.

Bloodbath of B-R5RB

Once the game went into downtime, publisher CCP Games announced that it would create an in-game monument in the B-R5RB star system to commemorate the battle.

Capellan Confederation

Its name is derived from the Capellan Reaches, the region of space spreading out from Terra towards the star system Capella, and for the Capellan Hegemony, once centered on Capella, which was one of the Confederation's founding members.

Circumbinary planet

In the Trigun series, the planet orbits a binary star system.

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.

Fictitious entry

A Fred Saberhagen science fiction short story, "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron," in which an encyclopedia article for a star system was a fictitious entry included in the encyclopedia to detect plagiarism, which caused a ship to end up in an empty star system where it ran out of fuel and ceased to be a threat to humanity.

Firaxis Games

Early on, Firaxis has produced several PC games, including Sid Meier's Gettysburg! and Sid Meier's Antietam!, based on their namesake famous American Civil War battles, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a space colonization game taking place in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Foundation and Earth

Asimov here is drawing attention to an astronomical curio: the nearest star system to Sol contains a star that has the same spectral type, G2 V, though Alpha Centauri A is a little larger and brighter.

Gamma Virginis

This star system has the traditional name Porrima, the alternative name of Antevorta, one of the Camenae or ancient Roman goddesses of prophecy.

Georg Hermann Struve

At Yerkes Observatory, he again met his cousin Otto and reanalyzed observations of the complex multiple star system zeta Cancri by their grandfather Otto Wilhelm von Struve.

Green Lantern Corps: Recharge

The Green Lanterns' rings pick up a signal from Soranik Natu, locating her in the Vega star system.

HD 188753

Since HD 188753 Ab was believed to be orbiting in a multi-star system, Konacki referred to planets of this type as "Tatooine planets" after Luke Skywalker's home world.

LineWars II

Recently receiving your Fighter Pilots License, you are assigned to guard a remote outpost in the obscure Deneb star system.

Robert K. G. Temple

Robert K. G. Temple (born in 1945) is an American author best known for his controversial book, The Sirius Mystery (1976; though Temple began writing it in 1967) which presents the idea that the Dogon people preserve the tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system.

Sami Keinänen

As G-Stealer, he was a terrible manbeast from the star system Mu Arae, just like Kita.

Stala

Originally a brutal battle beast from the Mu Arae star system used in combat, he was sent to Earth for an unknown purpose.

The Colorful Character

Gregory Lawrence, an ordinary, nondescript scientist, is dismayed to learn that the famous interplanetary explorer Sir Erik Koskelainen has returned to Earth from the planet Krishna in the Tau Ceti star system, and is to stay with the family of Lícia Ferreira, the girl he has been courting.

Willem Jacob Luyten

He also discovered some of the Sun's nearest neighbors, including Luyten's star as well as the high–proper motion star system Luyten 726-8, which was soon found to contain the remarkable flare star UV Ceti.

XZ

XZ Tauri, a binary star system in the constellation Taurus