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Ursa Major moving group. The Ursa Major Moving Group, also known as Collinder 285 and the Ursa Major association, is the closest stellar moving group – a set of stars with common velocities in space and thought to have a common origin in space and time. In the case of the Ursa Major group, all the stars formed about 300 million years ago. [1]
Iota Ursae Majoris ( ι Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Iota UMa, ι UMa ), also named Talitha / ˈtælɪθə /, [10] is a star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.14, [2] making it visible to the naked eye and placing it among the brighter members of this constellation.
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β Ursae Minoris ( Latinised to Beta Ursae Minoris) is the star's Bayer designation . It bore the traditional name Kochab, which appeared in the Renaissance and has an uncertain meaning. It may be from Arabic: الكوكب al-kawkab or Hebrew: כוכב kōkhāv, both of which are broadly used to describe a celestial body and can be translated ...
Untitled (Mural for Peace), commonly known as the United Nations Security Council mural, is an oil painting by Norwegian artist Per Krohg exhibited at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City since August 22, 1952. The mural, an 18' x 29' canvas located on the UN Security Council chamber's east wall, features a central image of a ...
Killing of Zijie Yan. On August 28, 2023, Zijie Yan, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, was shot and killed on campus. 34-year-old Tailei Qi, one of his graduate students, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The shooting sent the university into lockdown ...
Mu Ursae Majoris. Mu Ursae Majoris ( μ Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Mu UMa, μ UMa ), formally named Tania Australis / ˈteɪniə ɔːˈstreɪlɪs /, [12] [13] is a binary star in the constellation of Ursa Major. An apparent visual magnitude of +3.06 [2] places it among the brighter members of the constellation. Parallax measurements give an ...
Roland Sound Canvas. The Roland Sound Canvas ( Japanese: ローランド・サウンド・キャンバス, Hepburn: Rōrando Saundo Kyanbasu) lineup is a series of General MIDI (GM) based pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound modules and sound cards, primarily intended for computer music usage, created by Japanese manufacturer Roland Corporation.