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  • Thumbnail for NGC 148
    NGC 148 (also known as PGC 2035) is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It is about 40,000 light years across. It is in a group...
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    The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched...
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  • Thumbnail for GJ 1245
    GJ 1245 (Gliese 1245) is a double star with components G 208-44 and G 208-45, 14 light-years away, relatively close to the Solar System. G 208-44 is itself...
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  • Thumbnail for Doyle Peak
    Doyle Peak is a peak in the Coconino National Forest, and the fourth-highest peak in the San Francisco Peaks of northern Arizona. It is the sixth-highest...
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  • Thumbnail for Geodetic control network
    A geodetic control network is a network, often of triangles, that are measured precisely by techniques of control surveying, such as terrestrial surveying...
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  • Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin, eds., Wiley, 1996, ISBN 0-471-13561-5) is a book composed of...
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  • Slovak Organization for Space Activities - SOSA (Slovak: 'Slovenská organizácia pre vesmírne aktivity') is non-governmental organization based in Bratislava...
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  • Le Papillon des étoiles (The Butterfly of the Stars) is a 2006 novel by French author Bernard Werber. It describes a generation ship under the form of...
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