query: What is the brightest star?

title: Historical brightest stars

text: Historical brightest stars The Solar System and all of the visible stars are in different orbits about the core of the Milky Way galaxy. Thus, their relative positions change over time, and for the nearer stars this movement can be measured. As a star moves toward or away from us, its apparent brightness changes. Sirius is currently the brightest star in Earth's night sky, but it has not always been so. Canopus has persistently been the brightest star over the ages; other stars appear brighter only during relatively temporary periods, during which they are passing the Solar System at a

title: Historical brightest stars

text: it doesn't include Gliese 710 which in about 1.35 million years time is expected to be close enough to have a magnitude of -2.7. Historical brightest stars The Solar System and all of the visible stars are in different orbits about the core of the Milky Way galaxy. Thus, their relative positions change over time, and for the nearer stars this movement can be measured. As a star moves toward or away from us, its apparent brightness changes. Sirius is currently the brightest star in Earth's night sky, but it has not always been so. Canopus has persistently been the

title: Star

text: using the difference as an exponent for the base number 2.512; that is to say: Relative to both luminosity and distance from Earth, a star's absolute magnitude ("M") and apparent magnitude ("m") are not equivalent; for example, the bright star Sirius has an apparent magnitude of −1.44, but it has an absolute magnitude of +1.41. The Sun has an apparent magnitude of −26.7, but its absolute magnitude is only +4.83. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky as seen from Earth, is approximately 23 times more luminous than the Sun, while Canopus, the second brightest star in the night

title: Binary star

text: is the third-brightest star in the constellation Cygnus, is actually a close binary itself. Also in the Cygnus constellation is Cygnus X-1, an X-ray source considered to be a black hole. It is a high-mass X-ray binary, with the optical counterpart being a variable star. Sirius is another binary and the brightest star in the night time sky, with a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46. It is located in the constellation Canis Major. In 1844 Friedrich Bessel deduced that Sirius was a binary. In 1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovered the companion (Sirius B; the visible star is Sirius A). In

title: First magnitude star

text: First magnitude star First magnitude stars are the brightest stars in the night sky, with apparent magnitudes lower than +1.50.Hipparchus, in the 1st century B.C., introduced the magnitude scale. He allocated first magnitude to the 20 brightest stars and the sixth magnitude to the faintest stars visible to the naked eye. In the 19th Century, this ancient scale of apparent magnitude was logarithmically defined—so that a star of 1.00 mag is exactly 100 times brighter than a star of 6.00 magnitude. The scale also was extended to even brighter celestial bodies like Sirius (-1.5 mag), Venus (-4 mag), full Moon

title: Brightest and Best

text: Brightest and Best "Brightest and Best" (occasionally rendered by its first line, "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning") is a Christian hymn written in 1811 by the Anglican bishop Reginald Heber to be sung at the feast of Epiphany. It appeared in Heber's widow's compilation of hymns entitled "Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Service of the Church Year" in 1827. It can be sung to a number of tunes, including "Morning Star" by James P. Harding, "Epiphany" by Joseph Thrupp, and "Star in the East" by William Walker. It appears in "The Lutheran Hymnal", and

title: Historical brightest stars

text: much closer distance than Canopus. Working out exactly which stars were or will be the brightest at any given point in the past or future is difficult since it requires precise 3D proper motions of large numbers of stars and precise distances. This information only started to become available with the 1997 Hipparcos data release. Jocelyn Tomkin used this data to compile a list of brightest star in Earth's night sky at each period within the last or next 5 million years. Reanalysis of the Hipparcos data and new data from Gaia have rendered the list somewhat outdated. For example

title: Britain's Brightest

text: Britain's Brightest Britain's Brightest is a game show that aired on BBC One from 5 January to 9 February 2013 and was hosted by Clare Balding. "Britain's Brightest" is an adaptation of the German format "" (internationally promoted as "The Nation's Brightest"). The format is for 24 ordinary people to have their intelligence tested in a variety of ways including memory, speed and emotional intelligence. It is thus similar to other game shows which aimed to test a range of mental faculties such as "The Krypton Factor" and "Britain's Best Brain". The competition is staged as a knock-out in which

title: Britain's Brightest

text: the winner is the best all-round performer. The contestants compete for a prize of £50,000. There are VTs of Street Science presented by Steve Mould testing the public with science stunts and amazing facts. Britain's Brightest Britain's Brightest is a game show that aired on BBC One from 5 January to 9 February 2013 and was hosted by Clare Balding. "Britain's Brightest" is an adaptation of the German format "" (internationally promoted as "The Nation's Brightest"). The format is for 24 ordinary people to have their intelligence tested in a variety of ways including memory, speed and emotional intelligence. It

title: Brightest Day

text: Brightest Day "Brightest Day" is a 2010 - 2011 crossover storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of a year-long comic book maxi-series that began in April 2010, and a number of tie-in books. The story follows the ending of the series "Blackest Night" and how the aftermath of these events affects the entire DC Universe. At the end of the 2009–2010 "Blackest Night" storyline, 12 deceased heroes and villains are resurrected for some unknown purpose. The events of "Brightest Day" follow the exploits of these characters as they seek to learn the secret behind their return to life. "Brightest Day"

title: The Brightest Void

text: The Brightest Void The Brightest Void is the third EP by Finnish rock and metal soprano vocalist Tarja Turunen. It serves as a prequel to the main album The Shadow Self. It was released on the 3 June 2016 and contains 9 tracks. This album came to Tarja as an idea for a big surprise and gift to her fans containing material recorded but not being included on the main album. She explained: "During the long process of recording the songs for my new studio album ‘The Shadow Self’, I realised that there were so many tracks... ...for just one

title: The Brightest Void

text: album. So this time I decided to keep nothing for myself and to share all my favourite new songs with you, the fans, who have shown such passionate and constant support." On 14 April 2016, Earmusic released a trailer for the video, "No Bitter End". The whole video was released on 20 April. On 27 May 2016, Tarja announced the full-length album was available for streaming on Apple Music. The Brightest Void The Brightest Void is the third EP by Finnish rock and metal soprano vocalist Tarja Turunen. It serves as a prequel to the main album The Shadow Self.

title: Brightest Day

text: is a picture of how Batman would look as a White Lantern. Brightest Day "Brightest Day" is a 2010 - 2011 crossover storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of a year-long comic book maxi-series that began in April 2010, and a number of tie-in books. The story follows the ending of the series "Blackest Night" and how the aftermath of these events affects the entire DC Universe. At the end of the 2009–2010 "Blackest Night" storyline, 12 deceased heroes and villains are resurrected for some unknown purpose. The events of "Brightest Day" follow the exploits of these characters as they

title: The Best and the Brightest

text: The Best and the Brightest The Best and the Brightest (1972) is an account by journalist David Halberstam of the origins of the Vietnam War published by Random House. The focus of the book is on the foreign policy crafted by academics and intellectuals who were in John F. Kennedy's administration, and the consequences of those policies in Vietnam. The title referred to Kennedy's "whiz kids"—leaders of industry and academia brought into the Kennedy administration—whom Halberstam characterized as insisting on "brilliant policies that defied common sense" in Vietnam, often against the advice of career U.S. Department of State employees. Halberstam's

title: The Best and the Brightest

text: York Times's Marc Tracy reported that Donald Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon was reading the book in February 2017. Tracy drew a parallel between McNamara and Bannon's lack of experience in national security. The Best and the Brightest The Best and the Brightest (1972) is an account by journalist David Halberstam of the origins of the Vietnam War published by Random House. The focus of the book is on the foreign policy crafted by academics and intellectuals who were in John F. Kennedy's administration, and the consequences of those policies in Vietnam. The title referred to Kennedy's "whiz kids"—leaders of

title: Supergiant star

text: some of the brightest stars in the sky. Rigel, the brightest star in the constellation Orion is a typical blue-white supergiant; Deneb is the brightest star in Cygnus, a white supergiant; Delta Cephei is the famous prototype Cepheid variable, a yellow supergiant; and Betelgeuse, Antares and UY Scuti are red supergiants. μ Cephei is one of the reddest stars visible to the naked eye and one of the largest in the galaxy. Rho Cassiopeiae, a variable, yellow hypergiant, is one of the most luminous naked-eye stars. Supergiant star Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars. Supergiant stars

title: The Best and the Brightest

text: supported your assertion, you should have proved that the present ministry are unquestionably the best and brightest characters of the kingdom; and that, if the affections of the colonies have been alienated, if Corsica has been shamefully abandoned, if commerce languishes, if public credit is threatened with a new debt, and your own Manilla ransom most dishonourably given up, it has all been owing to the malice of political writers, who will not suffer the best and brightest characters (meaning still the present ministry) to take a single right step, for the honour or interest of the nation. In the

title: Star cluster

text: the case for the globular cluster M79. Some galaxies are much richer in globulars: the giant elliptical galaxy M87 contains over a thousand. A few of the brightest globular clusters are visible to the naked eye, with the brightest, Omega Centauri, having been known since antiquity and catalogued as a star before the telescopic age. The brightest globular cluster in the northern hemisphere is Messier 13 in the constellation of Hercules. Super star clusters are very large regions of recent star formation, and are thought to be the precursors of globular clusters. Examples include Westerlund 1 in the Milky Way.

title: My Brightest Diamond

text: My Brightest Diamond My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Nova. The band has released four studio albums, "Bring Me the Workhorse" in 2006, "A Thousand Shark's Teeth" in 2008, "All Things Will Unwind" in 2011, and "This Is My Hand" in 2014, along with remix albums "Tear It Down" and "Shark Remixes, Volumes 1-4". Nova has also recorded and performed with The Decemberists (as "The Queen" on their album "Hazards of Love") and Sufjan Stevens' albums "Illinois" and "The Age of Adz". My Brightest Diamond mixes elements of chamber music and rock. While living in

title: My Brightest Diamond

title: Brightest Young Things

text: Brightest Young Things Brightest Young Things , or BYT Media Inc., is an online magazine and event production and marketing agency based in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Founded in 2009 by Svetlana Legetic, a former Architecture Designer from Serbia, "Brightest Young Things" publishes original articles, interviews, guides and calendars pertaining to “food”, “style”, “music”, “art”, “theatre”, “film”, “gays”, and “weird” social events and trends in Washington, D.C. and, as of August 2012, New York City. The site regularly publishes up to 30 posts a day and publishes about 100 original articles a week, and is known for its

title: Electra (star)

text: Electra (star) Electra, also designated 17 Tauri, is a blue-white giant star in the constellation of Taurus. It is the third-brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster (M45); the most visible stars in this group are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology. The star has an apparent brightness of 3.72, the third-brightest of the stars in the group. Electra belongs to the spectral class B6 IIIe and is approximately 400 light-years from the Sun. The Pleiades cluster is thought to be 444 light-years away. The projected rotational velocity of this star is 181 km/s, making it a

title: Electra (star)

text: August 2016 and it is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. USS "Electra" (1843) and USS "Electra" (AK-21/AKA-4), both of United States Navy. Electra (star) Electra, also designated 17 Tauri, is a blue-white giant star in the constellation of Taurus. It is the third-brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster (M45); the most visible stars in this group are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology. The star has an apparent brightness of 3.72, the third-brightest of the stars in the group. Electra belongs to the spectral class B6 IIIe and is approximately 400

title: The Best and the Brightest (film)

text: the historic Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania The film received mostly mixed to positive reviews. The Best and the Brightest (film) The Best and the Brightest is a 2010 American independent film. Directed by Josh Shelov, the film stars Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville as Jeff and Sam respectively, a young couple that moves into New York City. The film centers around the effort they have to put in to get their five-year-old daughter Beatrice (Amelia Talbot) into an elite private kindergarten. This is director Josh Shelov's debut feature-film, co-written with Michael Jaeger. The film received mostly

title: The Best and the Brightest (film)

text: The Best and the Brightest (film) The Best and the Brightest is a 2010 American independent film. Directed by Josh Shelov, the film stars Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville as Jeff and Sam respectively, a young couple that moves into New York City. The film centers around the effort they have to put in to get their five-year-old daughter Beatrice (Amelia Talbot) into an elite private kindergarten. This is director Josh Shelov's debut feature-film, co-written with Michael Jaeger. The film received mostly mixed to positive reviews. The film opens with Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) and Sam (Bonnie Somerville) moving

title: Brightest Young Things

text: cultural knowledge about Washington, D.C.'s trending restaurants, nightlife, and events, targeting young, 20-something “hipster” crowds in both Washington, D.C. and New York City. "Brightest Young Things" also puts on multiple yearly events in both cities, such as the Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival in Washington, D.C., often collectively selling up to 30,000 tickets for these events. In past years, events in Washington, D.C. included "Brightest Young Things" collaborations with National Geographic, Virgin Mobile, and The Kennedy Center. "Brightest Young Things" began as Legetic's successful Myspace page in 2006, chronicling Washington, D.C. nightlife events. Legetic claims that Brightest Young Things began to

title: Brightest cluster galaxy

text: lead to discrepancies in the reported values of the sizes of these objects. Brightest cluster galaxy A brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) is defined as the brightest galaxy in a cluster of galaxies. BCGs include the most massive galaxies in the universe. They are generally elliptical galaxies which lie close to the geometric and kinematical center of their host galaxy cluster, hence at the bottom of the cluster potential well. They are also generally coincident with the peak of the cluster X-ray emission. Formation scenarios for BCGs include: The study of accretion populations in BCGs has cast doubt over this theory

title: Brightest cluster galaxy

text: Brightest cluster galaxy A brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) is defined as the brightest galaxy in a cluster of galaxies. BCGs include the most massive galaxies in the universe. They are generally elliptical galaxies which lie close to the geometric and kinematical center of their host galaxy cluster, hence at the bottom of the cluster potential well. They are also generally coincident with the peak of the cluster X-ray emission. Formation scenarios for BCGs include: The study of accretion populations in BCGs has cast doubt over this theory and astronomers have seen no evidence of cooling flows in radiative cooling clusters.

title: Brightest and Best

text: appeared in the 1966 Methodist hymnal. It has been recorded by a number of artists, including Glen Campbell, Joanne Hogg and Kathy Mattea (on her album "Good News"). The Kentucky traditional singer Jean Ritchie often sang this and told of her childhood memory of her grandmother sitting by the fire and singing it quietly to herself on Twelfth Night; the Library of Congress collected it from her in 1951. Brightest and Best "Brightest and Best" (occasionally rendered by its first line, "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning") is a Christian hymn written in 1811 by the Anglican

title: Brightest Young Things

text: most powerful people in Washington, D.C. On March 25, 2013, managing editor Logan Donaldson was accused of plagiarizing a number of blurbs on BYT's “spring and summer music guide” from sources such as Rolling Stone, Telegraph, and Wikipedia. Two days later the site announced Donaldson's resignation and temporarily removed all archived content before March 25, 2013 for an "internal audit" that revealed other plagiarized content from Donaldson's time at Brightest Young Things. Brightest Young Things Brightest Young Things , or BYT Media Inc., is an online magazine and event production and marketing agency based in Washington, D.C. and New York

title: Binary star

text: nature of this system. Another eclipsing binary is Beta Lyrae, which is a semidetached binary star system in the constellation of Lyra. Other interesting binaries include 61 Cygni (a binary in the constellation Cygnus, composed of two K class (orange) main-sequence stars, 61 Cygni A and 61 Cygni B, which is known for its large proper motion), Procyon (the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor and the eighth-brightest star in the night time sky, which is a binary consisting of the main star with a faint white dwarf companion), SS Lacertae (an eclipsing binary which stopped eclipsing), V907 Sco

title: Pleione (star)

text: roughly 120 pc. With a radius of 3.2 and mass that is 3.4 , Pleione is considerably smaller than the brightest stars in the Pleiades. Alcyone for instance has a radius that is 10 with a luminosity 2,400 , making it roughly 30 times more voluminous than Pleione and about 13 times brighter. Pleione is a classical Be star, often referred to as an "active hot star". Classical Be stars are B-type stars close to the main sequence with an "e" added on, signifying that Pleione exhibits emission lines in its spectrum rather than absorption lines, which is what stars

title: Binary star

text: the second-brightest star in the constellation Gemini and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. Astronomically, Castor was discovered to be a visual binary in 1719. Each of the components of Castor is itself a spectroscopic binary. Castor also has a faint and widely separated companion, which is also a spectroscopic binary. The Alcor–Mizar visual binary in Ursa Majoris also consists of six stars, four comprising Mizar and two comprising Alcor. Binary star A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycenter. Systems of two or more stars are called "multiple

title: What Is the What

text: What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as "murahaleen" (which is Arabic for the deported), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. During the assault, he loses sight

title: What Is the What

text: That Happens Will Happen Today". Tom Tykwer plans to adapt the novel into a film. In 2009, the novel received the Prix Médicis étranger in France. What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when

title: Cygnus X (star complex)

text: as an additional large number of early-type stars that include BD+40 4210, a blue supergiant and luminous blue variable candidate that is one of the brightest stars of the association, as well as more supergiant stars of spectral types O and B. The same study shows that star formation has been taking place there during at least 10 million years, continuing to the present day. What is Cygnus-X Region? Cygnus-X: The Inner Workings of a Nearby Star Factory (APOD) New members of the massive stellar population in Cygnus Cygnus X (star complex) "Cygnus-X" is a massive star formation region located

title: Castor (star)

text: YY Geminorum. Castor (star) Castor, also designated Alpha Geminorum (α Geminorum, abbreviated Alpha Gem, α Gem) is the second-brightest point of light in the constellation of Gemini and one of the brightest in the night sky. It appears singular to the naked eye, but it is actually a sextuple star system in three binary pairs made up of the stars Castor Aa, Castor Ab, Castor Ba, Castor Bb, Castor Ca, and Castor Cb. Although it has the Bayer designation "alpha", it is fainter than Beta Geminorum, Pollux. Castor was recorded as a double star in 1718 by James Pound. It

title: Castor (star)

text: Castor (star) Castor, also designated Alpha Geminorum (α Geminorum, abbreviated Alpha Gem, α Gem) is the second-brightest point of light in the constellation of Gemini and one of the brightest in the night sky. It appears singular to the naked eye, but it is actually a sextuple star system in three binary pairs made up of the stars Castor Aa, Castor Ab, Castor Ba, Castor Bb, Castor Ca, and Castor Cb. Although it has the Bayer designation "alpha", it is fainter than Beta Geminorum, Pollux. Castor was recorded as a double star in 1718 by James Pound. It may have

title: My Brightest Diamond

text: Me the Workhorse", a more rock-oriented set that was released on Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty in summer 2006. My Brightest Diamond toured with Stevens that fall in support of the album. In 2006 she did a Take-Away Show video session with Vincent Moon. In early 2007, My Brightest Diamond toured in support of the popular indie band, The Decemberists, as part of their "Twilight in the Fearful Forest" Tour. A Thousand Shark's Teeth was released worldwide on Asthmatic Kitty on June 2, 2008, with a US release following on June 17. My Brightest Diamond contributed a cover of Radiohead's "Lucky" for

title: Tomorrow's Brightest Minds

text: Ringo Starr, Dave Stewart and Kara DioGuardi. They have split into two divisions: TBM Films (headed up by Boocheck and Harpootlian) and TBM Records (headed up by Simmons). TBM Records has released 3 EP’s and a full-length LP (as well as several remixes released digitally). TBM Films is currently developing feature film projects. Tomorrow's Brightest Minds Tomorrow’s Brightest Minds is the pseudonym for director Robert Boocheck, producer Wade Harpootlian and designer Dave Simmons. They are known for creating quirky commercials, videos, and short films. TBM has worked with brands such as Slim Jim, Adidas, G4, Chef Boyardee, Microsoft, Ray Ban,

title: Semiregular variable star

text: pulsation period, with amplitudes of a few tenths of a magnitude at visual wavelengths. The cause of the pulsations is not known. η Gem is the brightest SRa variable, and also an eclipsing binary. GZ Peg is an SRa variable and S-type star with a maximum magnitude of 4.95. T Cen is listed as the next-brightest SRa example, but it is suggested that it may actually be an RV Tauri variable, which would make it by far the brightest member of that class. There are numerous naked-eye SRb stars, with third-magnitude L Pup being the brightest listed in the GCVS.

title: Star of the East (song)

text: Star of the East (song) "Star of the East", originally named "" is a popular Christmas carol written in the 1800s. The words were written by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890. The music was arranged by composer Amanda Kennedy in 1883, for a song called "Star of the Sea". It is not to be confused with several similarly named carols, including an American folk carol named "Star in the East" and an English carol titled "Star of the East" or "Brightest and Best". Judy Garland recorded the song in 1941. <poem>Star of the East, Oh Bethlehem's star, Guiding

title: Star of the East (song)

text: ceased, Beam on, bright star, sweet Bethlehem star!</poem> Star of the East (song) "Star of the East", originally named "" is a popular Christmas carol written in the 1800s. The words were written by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890. The music was arranged by composer Amanda Kennedy in 1883, for a song called "Star of the Sea". It is not to be confused with several similarly named carols, including an American folk carol named "Star in the East" and an English carol titled "Star of the East" or "Brightest and Best". Judy Garland recorded the song in 1941.

title: Brightest Day

text: be a "main character" in "Brightest Day". The first issue, issue #0, was penciled by Fernando Pasarin. David Finch, a newly DC exclusive artist, illustrated the covers for the entire series. In June 2010, writer Geoff Johns announced that the "Brightest Day" event would also be used to introduce Jackson Hyde, the new Aqualad created for the "Young Justice" animated series, into the DC Universe. Similarly, the final issue of the series reintroduced Swamp Thing and John Constantine into the mainstream DC Universe after a number of years in DC's mature "Vertigo" imprint. The story begins the day after "Blackest

title: Brightest Young Things

text: take shape when she met Cale Charney (BYT's current event producer), web designer Jason Bond Pratt and graphic designer Erik Loften, who helped her buy a URL and begin building the website. What started out as a part-time job for Legetic and close friends and aimed to create a single stop for information about DC social events has since become, according to Legetic, a "self-sustained media property" with at least 6 full-time employees, 60 contributors, and numerous interns. In 2012, "The New York Times" called "Brightest Young Things" a "party-production juggernaut," and Legetic was named #42 on GQ Magazine's 50

title: Tomorrow's Brightest Minds

text: Tomorrow's Brightest Minds Tomorrow’s Brightest Minds is the pseudonym for director Robert Boocheck, producer Wade Harpootlian and designer Dave Simmons. They are known for creating quirky commercials, videos, and short films. TBM has worked with brands such as Slim Jim, Adidas, G4, Chef Boyardee, Microsoft, Ray Ban, and McDonald's. Most notably, they created the viral "Shiny Suds" ad for Method Cleaner. In the music world they have worked with artists such as The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab For Cutie, and Bad Religion. They were also responsible for the half-hour VH1 "fake-umentary" Rock Legends: Platinum Weird featuring Mick Jagger, Elton John,

title: What Is the What

text: writes: "Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art." The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees

title: The Midnight Star

text: portal for two months. Violetta apologizes to Magiano who in return says that it was Adelina's choice. A couple months later Violetta begs the Goddess of Empathy, Compasia, to give her sister back. Compasia apologizes to Moritas and makes Adelina into a star just like Compasia did to her human lover. Magiano follows Adelina's constellation and in the book it states: If you are very quiet and do not look away, you may see the brightest star in the constellation glow steadily brighter. It brightens until it overwhelms every other star in the sky, brightens until it seems to touch

title: The Best and the Brightest

text: introduction to the 1992 edition, Halberstam states that he had used the title in an article for "Harper's Magazine", and that Mary McCarthy criticized him in a book review for incorrectly referencing the line in the Shelley poem. Halberstam claims he had no knowledge of that earlier use of the term found in the Heber hymn. Halberstam also observed regarding the "best and the brightest" phrase, that "...hymn or no, it went into the language, although it is often misused, failing to carry the tone or irony that the original intended." In the book's introduction and a 2001 interview, Halberstam

title: Jewel Box (star cluster)

text: cluster is framed by bright stars making up an "A"-shaped asterism. The upper tip of this asterism is HD 111904 (HR 4887, HIP 62894), a B9 supergiant and suspected variable star. It is the brightest member of the A asterism at magnitude 5.77. The brightest star in the cluster is the variable DS Cru (HD 111613, HR 4876), which lies well beyond the A asterism. It is a B9.5 α Cyg variable supergiant with an average visual brightness of magnitude 5.72, but is thought to be a foreground object. The bar of the "A" consists of a line of four

title: Pleione (star)

text: Pleione (star) Pleione, designated 28 Tauri and BU Tauri (abbreviated 28 Tau or BU Tau), is a binary star and the seventh-brightest star in the Pleiades star cluster (Messier 45). It is located approximately from the Sun, appearing in the constellation of Taurus. Pleione is located close on the sky to the brighter star Atlas, so is difficult for stargazers to distinguish with the naked eye despite being a fifth magnitude star. The brighter star of the Pleione binary pair, component A, is a hot type B star 190 times more luminous than the Sun. It is classified as Be

title: What Is... Cliff Clavin?

text: What Is... Cliff Clavin? "What Is... Cliff Clavin?" is an eighth season episode of the American television series "Cheers". It was directed by Andy Ackerman rather than James Burrowswho directed 243 out of 273 episodes of the showand originally aired January 18, 1990 on NBC. In this episode, Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger) appears on the game show "Jeopardy!" and game show host Alex Trebek guest stars as himself. Cliff racks up an insurmountable lead during the game, only to lose it all in the final round. The episode received praise from critics for its concept and its guest star. Cliff

title: Star

text: times brighter than a second magnitude (+2.00) star, and about 100 times brighter than a sixth magnitude star (+6.00). The faintest stars visible to the naked eye under good seeing conditions are about magnitude +6. On both apparent and absolute magnitude scales, the smaller the magnitude number, the brighter the star; the larger the magnitude number, the fainter the star. The brightest stars, on either scale, have negative magnitude numbers. The variation in brightness (Δ"L") between two stars is calculated by subtracting the magnitude number of the brighter star ("m") from the magnitude number of the fainter star ("m"), then

title: Romano's Star

text: to be losing mass at a rate of every 25,000 - 50,000 years. The mass loss is highest when the star is largest and brightest. Although Romano's star has a Wolf-Rayet spectrum, it is not a classical hydrogen-free star Wolf-Rayet star. It still shows about 70% more hydrogen than helium at the surface. It is estimated to be only four million years old and has not yet lost all of its outer envelope of hydrogen. Modelling the evolution of massive stars suggests that Romano's star started as a star, has experienced a relatively brief LBV stage after it left the

title: IAU Working Group on Star Names

text: IAU-approved Star Names. In the List, the components are clearly identified by their identifiers in the Washington Double Star Catalog. Where a component letter is not explicitly listed, the WGSN says that the name should be understood to be attributed to the brightest component by visual brightness. General guidelines for Chinese star names were adopted during 2017. In summary, these are: The WGSN decided to focus during the rest of 2016 on standardizing common names and spellings for the brightest few hundred stars with published names, and on compiling cultural names, with names for faint stars to be discussed in

title: Our Lady, Star of the Sea

text: Bellarmine (writing c. 1600) deprecated this use of the title, preferring the allegory of Christ as the morning star as the "brightest star of all", classing the less-bright polar star as "paltry" ("exigua"). The idea of Mary as a guiding star for seafarers has led to devotion to Our Lady, Star of the Sea in many Catholic coastal and fishing communities. Numerous churches, schools and colleges are dedicated to "Stella Maris, Our Lady Star of the Sea", or "Mary, Star of the Sea". Stella Maris Monastery, the foundation house of the Carmelite order was established on Mount Carmel, Israel, in

title: Star

text: its nuclear fuel. As an O-class main sequence star, it would be 8 times the solar radius and 62,000 times the Sun's luminosity. Star A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth during the night, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points in the sky due to their immense distance from Earth. Historically, the most prominent stars were grouped into constellations and asterisms, the brightest of which gained

title: Star

text: Star A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth during the night, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points in the sky due to their immense distance from Earth. Historically, the most prominent stars were grouped into constellations and asterisms, the brightest of which gained proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. However, most of the stars in

title: Maia (star)

text: Maia (star) Maia, designated 20 Tauri (abbreviated 20 Tau), is a star in the constellation of Taurus. It is the fourth-brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster (M45), after Alcyone, Atlas and Electra, in that order. Maia is a blue giant of spectral type B8 III, and a mercury-manganese star. Maia's visual magnitude is 3.871, requiring darker skies to be seen. Its total bolometric luminosity is 660 times solar, mostly in the ultraviolet, thus suggesting a radius that is 5.5 times that of the Sun and a mass that is slightly more than 4 times solar. It was thought

title: Maia (star)

text: with the constellation Orion, the Greek myths tell of Maia and her sisters being pursued by the giant huntsman, and turned into doves to preserve their safety. Maia (star) Maia, designated 20 Tauri (abbreviated 20 Tau), is a star in the constellation of Taurus. It is the fourth-brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster (M45), after Alcyone, Atlas and Electra, in that order. Maia is a blue giant of spectral type B8 III, and a mercury-manganese star. Maia's visual magnitude is 3.871, requiring darker skies to be seen. Its total bolometric luminosity is 660 times solar, mostly in the

title: Pollux (star)

text: planet, Pollux b, was confirmed and announced on June 16, 2006. Pollux b is calculated to have a mass at least 2.3 times that of Jupiter. The planet is orbiting Pollux with a period of about 590 days. Pollux (star) Pollux, also designated Beta Geminorum (β Geminorum, abbreviated Beta Gem, β Gem), is an orange-hued evolved giant star approximately 34 light-years from the Sun in the northern constellation of Gemini. It is the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini and the closest giant star to the Sun. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of

title: Pleione (star)

text: and elegance. Some of the finest designs in racing yachts have the name Pleione, and the recent Shanghai Oriental Art Center draws its inspiration from an orchid. Fat Jon in his new album Hundred Eight Stars has a prismatic track dedicated to 28 Tauri. Pleione (star) Pleione, designated 28 Tauri and BU Tauri (abbreviated 28 Tau or BU Tau), is a binary star and the seventh-brightest star in the Pleiades star cluster (Messier 45). It is located approximately from the Sun, appearing in the constellation of Taurus. Pleione is located close on the sky to the brighter star Atlas, so

title: Pollux (star)

text: Pollux (star) Pollux, also designated Beta Geminorum (β Geminorum, abbreviated Beta Gem, β Gem), is an orange-hued evolved giant star approximately 34 light-years from the Sun in the northern constellation of Gemini. It is the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini and the closest giant star to the Sun. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified. In 2006, an extrasolar planet (designated Pollux b or β Geminorum b, later named Thestias) was confirmed to be orbiting it. "β Geminorum" (Latinised to "Beta Geminorum") is

title: Alcyone (star)

text: lists three companions: B is 24 Tau, a magnitude 6.28 A0 main sequence star 117" away; C is V647 Tau, a δ Sct variable star; and D is a magnitude 9.15 F3 main sequence star. V647 Tau varies from magnitude +8.25 to +8.30 over 1.13 hours. The Washington Double Star Catalog lists a further four companions, all fainter than 11th magnitude, and also describes component D as itself double with two nearly equal components separated by 0.30". The main star, Alcyone A, consists of three components, the brightest being a blue-white B-type giant similar to many of the other B-type

title: The World Is What It Is

text: The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage

title: Brightest Day

text: to lift the lantern, but it won't move... In June a three issue mini series involved the return of John Constantine to the DC Universe and his attempt to convince Superman and Batman that the choosing of Alec Holland (The new Swamp Thing) as the Earth's new protector is inevitable and the resurrected Alec Holland will have to die, so that his soul can merge again with The Green. The series is collected into a number of volumes: Other titles are also being collected: A Brightest Day skin attributed to Batman is one of the special skins in "". It

title: Hang Up Your Brightest Colours

text: BBC Two the following year. Hang Up Your Brightest Colours Hang Up Your Brightest Colours is a 1973 film by Welsh actor and filmmaker Kenneth Griffith, about the life and death of Irish Republican leader Michael Collins. It was directed by Antony Thomas. Although usually classed as a documentary, the film more closely resembles a dramatic monologue, with Griffith frequently delivering quotes by key figures such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Collins himself, "in character". The film was commissioned by media mogul Lew Grade for transmission by ATV, the ITV region covering the Midlands he controlled at the

title: Hang Up Your Brightest Colours

text: Hang Up Your Brightest Colours Hang Up Your Brightest Colours is a 1973 film by Welsh actor and filmmaker Kenneth Griffith, about the life and death of Irish Republican leader Michael Collins. It was directed by Antony Thomas. Although usually classed as a documentary, the film more closely resembles a dramatic monologue, with Griffith frequently delivering quotes by key figures such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Collins himself, "in character". The film was commissioned by media mogul Lew Grade for transmission by ATV, the ITV region covering the Midlands he controlled at the time. Grade had, in fact,

title: Binary star

text: exceed its Roche lobe, meaning that some of its matter ventures into a region where the gravitational pull of its companion star is larger than its own. The result is that matter will transfer from one star to another through a process known as Roche lobe overflow (RLOF), either being absorbed by direct impact or through an accretion disc. The mathematical point through which this transfer happens is called the first Lagrangian point. It is not uncommon that the accretion disc is the brightest (and thus sometimes the only visible) element of a binary star. If a star grows outside

title: Romano's Star

text: U-B colour indices. The effective temperature of Romano's star changes from about at minimum brightness to about at maximum brightness. The radius also changes from about at minimum to at maximum, so that the star is much larger and cooler when it is visually brightest. Typical behaviour for an LBV during these outbursts is for the bolometric luminosity to stay approximately constant, but Romano's star is one of several that have been shown to significantly change their luminosity. The luminosity increases from around at minimum to over at maximum. Romano's star is estimated to have a current mass of and

title: Alcyone (star)

text: with a likely orbital period just over four days. The other star is about half the mass of the giant and they are separated by 0.031 arcseconds, or about the distance from the Sun to Jupiter, orbiting in about 830 days. Alcyone (star) Alcyone, designated η Tauri (Eta Tauri, abbreviated Eta Tau, η Tau), is a multiple star system in the constellation of Taurus. Approximately 440 light years from the Sun, it is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, around 100 million years old. There are a number of fainter stars very close

title: Pollux (star)

text: is known as (, .) Parallax measurements made with the Hipparcos astrometry satellite place Pollux at a distance of about from the Sun. At an apparent visual magnitude of 1.14, Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation, brighter even than its neighbor Castor (Alpha Geminorum). The star is larger than the Sun, with about two times its mass and almost nine times its radius. Once an A-type main sequence star, Pollux has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved into a giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III. The effective temperature of this star's outer envelope

title: Star Magic

text: 19th anniversary on "ASAP Rocks". It also launched the new website and the new music video with the current artists of the company. In 2012, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, a Star Cinema romantic film was produced starring the agency's brightest stars titled, "24/7 in Love". In 2017, Star Magic celebrated their 25th Silver Anniversary. Star Magic ABS-CBN Center for Communication Arts Inc. (d/b/a Star Magic and formerly known as ABS-CBN Talent Center) is the training and management subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. It was designed to assist young talent in the Philippines. Star Magic talents undergo training in acting, personality

title: Alcyone (star)

text: Alcyone (star) Alcyone, designated η Tauri (Eta Tauri, abbreviated Eta Tau, η Tau), is a multiple star system in the constellation of Taurus. Approximately 440 light years from the Sun, it is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, around 100 million years old. There are a number of fainter stars very close to Alcyone, all most probably members of the same cluster. "Eta Tauri" is the star's Bayer designation. The name "Alcyone" originates with Greek mythology; she is one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione known as the Pleiades. In 2016,

title: What Is Love (V. Bozeman song)

text: is brief and melancholy, but it’s long enough for the Los Angeles-born vocalist to turn heads and establish herself as a rising star. The music video was released on January 14, 2015. "What is Love" has not entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 but has charted at number 12 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, the song has entered at number 39 in the US R&B songs and at number 13 in the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It has also entered at number 67 in France. What Is Love (V. Bozeman song) "What is Love" is a song recorded by

title: Joachim (Star Trek)

text: Joachim (Star Trek) Joachim (also Joachin and Joaquin) is a genetically engineered character in the fictional Star Trek universe who appears as one of Khan Noonien Singh's henchmen in the "" episode "Space Seed" and the film "", in which he is played by Mark Tobin and Judson Scott, respectively. The official Star Trek site maintained by Paramount Pictures describes Joachim as a "genetically superior blonde-haired young man". The script for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" describes Joachim as "the largest and brightest of Khan's group". In the text commentary for the "Star Trek II" director's edition DVD,

title: Wolf–Rayet star

text: exotic nature of its spectrum (bright emission lines in lieu of dark absorption lines) it is dubbed the "Spectral Gem of the Southern Skies". The only other Wolf–Rayet star brighter than magnitude 6 is θ Muscae (WR 48), a triple star with two O class companions. Both are WC stars. The "ex" WR star WR 79a (HR 6272) is brighter than magnitude 6 but is now considered to be a peculiar O8 supergiant with strong emission. The next brightest at magnitude 6.4 is WR 22, a massive binary with a WN7h primary. The most massive and most luminous star currently

title: Maia (star)

text: to be a variable star by astronomer Otto Struve. A class of stars known as Maia variables was proposed, which included Gamma Ursae Minoris, but Maia and some others in the class have since been found to be stable. Maia is surrounded by the Maia Nebula (also known as NGC 1432), one of the brightest patches of nebulosity within the Pleiades star cluster. "20 Tauri" is the star's Flamsteed designation. The name "Maia" originates with the and . She is one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione in Greek mythology—stars which are also included in the Pleiades star

title: Binary star

text: Montanari. The name Algol means "demon star" (from "al-ghūl"), which was probably given due to its peculiar behavior. Another visible ternary is Alpha Centauri, in the southern constellation of Centaurus, which contains the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, with an apparent visual magnitude of −0.01. This system also underscores the fact that binaries need not be discounted in the search for habitable planets. Alpha Centauri A and B have an 11 AU distance at closest approach, and both should have stable habitable zones. There are also examples of systems beyond ternaries: Castor is a sextuple star system, which is

title: The Water Is Wide (song)

text: true you are, and ever shall be. Our love shines clearly against the storm, Turns darkest night to brightest day, Turns turbulent waters to perfect calm, A blazing lamp to light our way. Love is the centre of all we see, Love is the jewel that guides us true, No matter what, love, you'll stay with me, No matter what, my love, I'll stay with you. The water is wide, I cannot get o'er And neither have I wings to fly, Build me a boat that can carry two And both shall row, my love and I. </poem> <poem> The

title: Sagittarius Star Cloud

text: when the Milky Way itself is visible as well. Without the dust and gas that conceals the Milky Way, M24 holds a collection of numerous kinds of stars that are placed along the Milky Way and through the galaxy's obscuring band of interstellar dust. HD 167356 is the brightest star that is located within the Sagittarius Star Cloud, a white supergiant with an apparent magnitude of 6.05. This star is an Alpha-2 Canum Venaticorum variable, showing small changes in brightness as it rotates. There are three other stars located in M24 with visual magnitudes between 6.5 and 7.0. The star

title: The World Is What It Is

text: in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the "Times"' "10 Best Books of 2008". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in

title: S-type star

text: light, it is the sky's brightest S-type star. It has a variable late type spectrum about S6 to S10, with features of zirconium, titanium and vanadium oxides, sometimes bordering on the intermediate MS type. A number of other prominent Mira variables such as R Andromedae and R Cygni are also S-type stars, as well as the peculiar semiregular variable π Gruis. The naked-eye star ο Ori is an intermediate MS star and small amplitude semiregular variable with a DA3 white dwarf companion. The spectral type has been given as S3.5/1-, M3III(BaII), or M3.2IIIaS. S-type star An S-type star (or just

title: Be star

text: of these are no longer considered to be classical Be stars. The brightest is Achernar, although it was not recognised as a Be star until 1976. With the understanding of the processes of emission line formation in the early 20th century it became clear that these lines in Be stars must come from circumstellar material ejected by the rapid rotation of the star. All the observational characteristics of Be stars can now be explained with a gaseous disk that is formed of material ejected from the star. The infrared excess and the polarization result from the scattering of stellar light

title: Big Star

text: at its brightest, it is Big Star in every way." The band appeared at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium on October 20, 2007. San Francisco-based band Oranger performed as opening act. Big Star performed at the 2008 Rhythm Festival, staged from August 29–31 in Bedfordshire, U.K. On June 16, 2009, the "#1 Record"/"Radio City" double album was reissued in remastered form. The same month, it was announced that a film of Big Star's history, based on biographer Rob Jovanovic's book "Big Star: The Story of Rock's Forgotten Band", was in pre-production. On July 1, 2009, Big Star performed at a concert

title: What Is the What

text: "we really hadn’t decided whether I was just helping Valentino write his own book, or if I was writing a book about him." Valentino points out that, "I thought I might want to write my own book, but I learned that I was not ready to do this. I was still taking classes in basic writing at Georgia Perimeter College." Dave Eggers discusses the difficulties in writing a book of this nature: "For a long while there, we continued doing interviews, and I gathered the material. But all along, I really didn’t know exactly what form it would finally take—whether

title: Leo Minor

text: from Earth. At magnitude 4.4, Beta Leonis Minoris is the second-brightest star and the only one in the constellation with a Bayer designation. It is a binary star, the brighter component of which is an orange giant and the fainter a yellow-white main sequence star. The third-brightest star is 21 Leonis Minoris, a rapidly rotating white main-sequence star of average magnitude 4.5. The constellation also includes two stars with planetary systems, two pairs of interacting galaxies, and the unique deep-sky object Hanny's Voorwerp. The classical astronomers Aratus and Ptolemy had noted the region of what is now Leo Minor to

title: Pole star

text: the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, Vega, will be a pole star around 13,700 AD. Precession will eventually point the north celestial pole nearer the stars in the constellation Hercules, pointing towards Tau Herculis around 18,400 AD. The celestial pole will then return to the stars in constellation Draco (Thuban, mentioned above) before returning to the current constellation, Ursa Minor. When Polaris becomes the North Star again around 27,800 AD, due to its proper motion it then will be farther away from the pole than it is now, while in 23,600 BC it was closer to the

title: Here Is What Is

text: Here Is What Is Here Is What Is is the fifth studio album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was first released in December 2007 as a high-quality download, and later released on CD on March 18, 2008. The album is the result of the same project that led to the 2007 documentary "Here Is What Is" that premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival in September. The movie documents the aesthetics and creative process behind Lanois' approach to music making and recording. The album has been presented as a direct soundtrack to this film, and

title: Mercury-manganese star

text: The following table includes the brightest stars in this group. Mercury-manganese star A mercury-manganese star is a type of chemically peculiar star with a prominent spectral line at 398.4 nm, due to absorption from ionized mercury. These stars are of spectral type B8, B9, or A0, corresponding to surface temperatures between about 10,000 and 15,000 K, with two distinctive characteristics: Their rotation is relatively slow, and as a consequence their atmosphere is relatively calm. It is thought, but has not been proven, that some types of atoms sink under the force of gravity, while others are lifted towards the exterior

title: Star chart

text: and it introduced the Bayer designations for identifying the brightest stars using the Greek alphabet. The "Uranometria" contained 48 maps of Ptolemaic constellations, a plate of the southern constellations and two plates showing the entire northern and southern hemispheres in stereographic polar projection. The Pole Johannes Hevelius finished his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas in 1690. It contained 56 large, double page star maps and improved the accuracy in the position of the southern stars. He introduced 11 more constellations (Scutum, Lacerta, Canes Venatici, etc.). Star chart A star chart or star map, also called a sky chart or sky map,

title: Brightest Day

text: #7 revealed that the 12 resurrected must complete an individual assignment given to them by the White Lantern Entity. If they are successful, their life will be fully returned. The series, written by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, was published twice a month for 24 issues (25 if including issue #0) alternating with "" written by Keith Giffen and Judd Winick. Johns has discussed the general theme: "Brightest Day" also crossed over into the "Green Lantern" series, the "Green Lantern Corps", "Justice League of America", "The Titans" and "The Flash". It was later announced that Gail Simone would return to

title: Star count

text: but can only be seen with large telescopes, and then only when they are within a few tens of light-years from Earth. For example, the blue giant ζ Puppis is 400 million times more luminous than the nearest star, a red dwarf named Proxima, or "α Centauri C". Even though Proxima is only 4.2 light-years away from us, it is so dim that it cannot be seen with the naked eye (one of its companions, "α Centauri A", is visible). The star "ζ Puppis" is one of the brightest of the visible extreme blue supergiants. It is so bright that

title: Merope (star)

text: Cephei type variable star and its brightness varies by 0.01 magnitudes. Surrounding Merope is the Merope Nebula (NGC 1435). It appears brightest around Merope and is listed in the Index Catalogue as number IC 349. "23 Tauri" is the star's Flamsteed designation. The name "Merope" originates with Greek mythology; she is one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione known as the Pleiades. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two

title: Brightest Day

text: a new volume of the "Birds of Prey" comic book, which will also be under the same banner. Other tie ins included the first issues of a relaunched "Green Arrow" and the "Justice Society of America". Jeff Lemire wrote the one-shot "Brightest Day: Atom" with artist Mahmud Asrar, which acted as a springboard for an Atom story to co-feature in "Adventure Comics" with the same creative team. The "Green Lantern" series featured more of the characters Atrocitus, Larfleeze, Saint Walker, and Indigo-1 in a story arc titled "New Guardians." At Emerald City Comic-Con 2010, Johns also stated that Firestorm would

title: R71 (star)

text: R71 (star) R71 (RMC 71, HD 269006) is a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the constellation Mensa. It is classified as a luminous blue variable and is one of the most luminous stars in the LMC. R71 has long been known as a blue supergiant and one of the brightest stars in the Magellanic Clouds. It was given a spectral type of B2.5 Iep. By 1974, R71 had increased in brightness from about 11th magnitude to about magnitude 9.2, and examination of historical photographic plates showed that there had been similar changes in the past, with the

title: R71 (star)

text: core will collapse, which may result in a supernova. However, a proportion of stars similar to R71 appear to undergo progressively more violent outbursts until they are destroyed. Also, some or all Wolf-Rayet stars may collapse directly to a back hole without producing a bright supernova explosion. R71 (star) R71 (RMC 71, HD 269006) is a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the constellation Mensa. It is classified as a luminous blue variable and is one of the most luminous stars in the LMC. R71 has long been known as a blue supergiant and one of the brightest

title: My Brightest Diamond

text: the vocals sung by Jane Lynch's character on Glee, as she described on the 13 Nov 2014 broadcast of the radio program Wits. The follow-up to their 2008 record "A Thousand Shark's Teeth", entitled "All Things Will Unwind", was released on October 18, 2011. The album actually began as a project to compose music for a program called The American Songbook Series. The title was inspired by a conversation Worden had with a friend about the sun burning out. In 2014, My Brightest Diamond released their fourth album, "This Is My Hand", along with the EP "None More Than You".

title: This Is What I Do (Sonny Rollins album)

text: This Is What I Do (Sonny Rollins album) This Is What I Do is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 2000, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Stephen Scott, Bob Cranshaw, Jack DeJohnette and Perry Wilson. The Allmusic review by Alex Henderson states: ""This Is What I Do" falls short of essential, but it offers some nice surprises and is a rewarding addition to Rollins' huge catalog." "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" gave it a maximum four-star rating and classified it as part of its core collection, stating: ""This Is What I

title: Romano's Star

text: Extragalactic Variable Stars catalogue as M33 V532. Analysis of historical records show that Romano's star was likely quiescent from 1900 until five outbursts occurred between 1960 and 2010. The brightness is not constant during maximum but shows variations on a timescale of months. The third of the five outbursts was the brightest, peaking at magnitude 16.5. The minimum brightness in 2014 was the faintest ever recorded at below magnitude 18.7 and the star remained faint into 2016. It has been suggested that the sequence of outbursts is now complete. The spectrum of GR 290 shows prominent emission lines of hydrogen