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    Catalogues (abbreviated IC), describing a further 5,386 astronomical objects. Thousands of these objects are best known by their NGC or IC numbers, which remain...
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  • agnogenic (agno-, "unknown" + -gen, "cause" + -ic). The word cryptogenic (crypto-, "hidden" + -gen, "cause" + -ic) has a sense that is synonymous with idiopathic...
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    Kepler-1638 is a G-type main-sequence star located about 5,000 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. One known exoplanet has been found orbiting...
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  • his rebellious captains to fight and conquer the Spanish treasure fleet in 1638. audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret slander boldly, something always...
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    NGC 1893 (redirect from IC 410)
    years away. The star cluster is embedded in the Tadpole Nebula (HII region IC 410). Images of the star cluster by the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest...
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    IC 335 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy about 60 million light years (18 million parsecs) away, in the constellation Fornax. It is part of the Fornax Cluster...
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    Magnificent in 1534, followed by Sultan Murad IV's capture of Baghdad in 1638, a large influx of Turks—predominantly from Anatolia—settled down in Iraq...
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  • astronomical objects May actually be UGC 2119 (02h 37m 58.7s, −01° 50′ 39″) or IC 243 (02h 38m 32.2s, −06° 54′ 07″) Thought to be an open cluster Gaia data...
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    subsiding coasts". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 16 (7): 1629–1638. Bibcode:2016NHESS..16.1629T. doi:10.5194/nhess-16-1629-2016. Dahdouh-Guebas...
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    an early example of a honeycomb structure. Galileo Galilei discusses in 1638 the resistance of hollow solids: "Art, and nature even more, makes use of...
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