Some articles on star:
Draco (constellation) - Notable Features - Stars
... The star Thuban (α Draconis) was the northern pole star around 3000 BC, during the time of the ancient Egyptians ... of precession, it will once again be the pole star around the year 21000 AD ... It is a blue-white giant star of magnitude 3.7, 309 light-years from Earth ...
... The star Thuban (α Draconis) was the northern pole star around 3000 BC, during the time of the ancient Egyptians ... of precession, it will once again be the pole star around the year 21000 AD ... It is a blue-white giant star of magnitude 3.7, 309 light-years from Earth ...
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“We operate exclusively with things that do not exist, with lines, surfaces, bodies, atoms, divisible time spans, divisible spaces—how could explanations be possible at all when we initially turn everything into images, into our images!”
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Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
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