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Orrery. A small orrery showing Earth and the inner planets. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; however, since accurate scaling is often ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.
With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets in a circumstellar habitable zone. [ 9 ] Many of these stars, and hence their planets, are much older than the Sun. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] If Earth-like planets are typical, some may have developed intelligent life long ago.
[151] In 2008, the Hulk was listed as the 19th greatest comic book character by Wizard magazine. [152] Empire magazine named him as the 14th-greatest comic-book character and the fifth-greatest Marvel character. [153] In 2011, the Hulk placed No. 9 on IGN's list of "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes", [154] and fourth on their list of "The Top 50 ...
At the Cerro Paranal Observatory, a laser beam is used to create an artificial star to tune the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The search for exoplanets on which extraterrestrial civilizations could be found is one of the many missions of the VLT. The Kardashev scale ( Russian: Шкала́ Кардашёва, romanized : Shkalá Kardashova) is a ...
Arty (voiced by Christian Distefano (season 1); Meesha Contreras (season 2–3) is a leader-like boy alien who explores the Creative Galaxy in his Creative Spark rocket ship. There, he collects ideas and makes a final project out of art to help out. Arty's Mom (voiced by Samantha Bee (seasons 1-2); Helen King (season 3) is Arty's fun-loving ...
Exquisite Corpse is a literary magazine founded in 1983 (later in online version from 1999) published by Andrei Codrescu. Naked Came the Manatee (Putnam, 1996) is a mystery thriller parody novel. Each of its thirteen chapters was written, in sequence, by a different Florida writer, beginning with Dave Barry and ending with Carl Hiaasen.