XO-1b is an extrasolar planet. It is approximately 536 light years away. It was discovered in 2006 by the XO Project which is an international team of professional and amateur astronomers. They used the transit method to find XO-1b. It a little bit larger than Jupiter. It is a hot Jupiter. The Hubble Space Telescope found water in the atmosphere of the XO-1b.
WASP-17b
WASP-17b is an exoplanet. It is found in the constellation Scorpius. It orbits the star WASP-17. Its discovery was announced on 11 August 2009. It is the first planet that was discovered to have a retrograde orbit. On 3 December 2013, scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope found water in the atmosphere of WASP-17b.
NGC 502
NGC 502 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It is about 117 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
NGC 505
NGC 505 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It is about 252 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
Western water-holding frog
The western water-holding frog is a frog from Australia. Scientists are not sure whether it should be called "Ranoidea occidentalis" or "Cyclorana occidentalis". It lives in Western Australia.
The adult male frog is 6.0 cm long and the adult female frog is 7.0 cm long. It has a flat body. The frog lives in places where the ground is dry. It has webbed feet and spends much of its time in the water. Because it has such a wide head, scientist think this frog eats other frogs. They think it eats them when they come to lay eggs in the same temporary bodies of water where the western water-holding frog lays its eggs.
This frog has young when it rains. The female lays eggs in bodies of water that dry up quickly, 500 at a time.
The tadpoles are 8.0 cm long. Once they become young frogs, they are 3.5 cm long.
WASP-19b
WASP-19b is an extrasolar planet. It has one of the shortest orbital periods of any known planet. Its orbital period is approximately 18.932 hours. It is much 1.31 times larger than Jupiter. It orbits the star WASP-19 in the Vela constellation. In December 2013, scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope found water in the atmosphere of the WASP-19b.
NGC 508
NGC 508 is an elliptical galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It is about 253 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
NGC 507
NGC 507 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It is about 227 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
NGC 509
NGC 509 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It is about 105 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
NGC 720
NGC 720 is an elliptical galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It is about 78 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
Stellar atmosphere
The stellar atmosphere is the outer region of a star. It is found above the convection zone.
The stellar atmosphere is divided into several layers:
Torquemada
Tomás de Torquemada (October 14, 1420 – September 16, 1498), also written in English as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar. He was the first Grand Inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition made thousands Jews and Muslims leave Spain.
The Wayward Bus (movie)
The Wayward Bus is a 1957 American drama movie directed by Victor Vicas and was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It stars Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey, Rick Jason and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Moon Over Miami (movie)
Moon Over Miami is a 1941 American musical comedy movie directed by Walter Lang and starring Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley, Charlotte Greenwood. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
NGC 721
NGC 721 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. It is about 256 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
NGC 722
NGC 722 is a spiral galaxy in the Aries constellation. It is about 223 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
Spearmint
Spearmint is a type of mint. It is also called garden mint, common mint, lamb mint and mackerel mint. It is native to Europe and southern Asia. It is naturalized in northern and southern Africa, North America and South America. It is used as a flavouring in food and herbal teas.
The species and subspecies have many synonyms.
Burgos, Spain
Burgos is a Spanish city in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital of the province of Burgos.
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Menthol
Menthol is an organic compound. It is gotten from the oils of corn mint, peppermint, or other mints. It can also be made artificially. It is a waxy, crystalline substance. It is white in color. It is a solid at room temperature. It melts at a temperature that is a little bit higher than room temperature.
Menthol has local anaesthetic qualities, and reduces irritation of the throat.
Mentha arvensis is the main type of mint used to make natural menthol crystals. It is mainly grown in the Uttar Pradesh region in India.
Natural menthol is made by freezing peppermint oil and separating methanol from the frozen the peppermint oil by filtration.
It is used as an antipruritic to reduce itching. It is used to relieve muscle cramps, sprains and headaches. It is used in some medicines to treat sunburns. It is used as a pesticide against tracheal mites. In organic chemistry, menthol is used as a chiral auxiliary in asymmetric synthesis.
2020 Brazil wildfires
The 2020 Brazil wildfires were a group of wildfires that began burning Brazil's rainforests in June and continued into September. More than 12% of all the plants in the Pantanal rainforest had burned by August.
In June, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said its satellites had taken pictures of 2,248 fires. In June 2019, there had been 1,880 fires.
It is normal for there to be some fires in the rainforest. Some are caused by lightning. But experts say most of the 2020 wildfires were set by humans. Satellite photos of the new fires show most of them started along roads leading into land belonging to indigenous peoples who live in Brazil.
Environmental scientists say that a time with very dry weather made the fires worse. In 2020, Brazil saw its worst drought in 50 years. Other experts say the COVID-19 pandemic also made the fires worse because government agencies were too busy to fight the fires.
Firefighter Alexandre Pereira who works in Mato Grosso do Sur said over 95% of the fires in his state had been started by people.
Environmentalist Carlos Rittl from Germany's Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies blamed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who encouraged people to start fires. He also weakened IBAMA, Brazil's environmental agency, so it could not fight fires or punish people who started fires.
Bolsonaro said the indigenous peoples started the fires, but photographs taken from craft orbiting the Earth show that the fires did not start on indigenous land. Bolsonaro has said he wants people to be able to start farms and mines on land that the law says belongs to the indigenous Brazilians.
These fires are bad for the indigenous people in Brazil because they burn up the food that they would eat. The smoke from fires in some areas is flowing into other areas, harming people's health.
Ferlach
Ferlach () is a town of the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Grafenstein
Grafenstein () is a market town of the district Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Keutschach am See
Keutschach am See () is a municipality of the district Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Camphor
Camphor is a waxy, flammable, transparent solid. It has a strong smell. It is a terpenoid. Its chemical formula is CHO. It is found in the wood of the camphor laurel ("Cinnamomum camphora"). Camphor can also be artificially made from the oil of turpentine.
Asian Rowing Championships
The Asian Rowing Championship is a rowing championship organised by the Asian Rowing Federation for competitors from the Asian countries.
Para events from 2015.
from 2004.