Dart Board Galaxy: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 5: Line 5:
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Armageddon Hard.jpg|link=Armageddon Hard|'''''[[Armageddon Hard]]'''''  is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.  
File:Armageddon Hard.jpg|link=Armageddon Hard|'''''[[Armageddon Hard]]'''''  is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.  
File:Alka-Seltzer for Venus.jpg|link=Alka-Seltzer for Venus|'''[[Alka-Seltzer for Venus]]''' is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.


</gallery>
</gallery>
Line 10: Line 12:
== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Alka-Seltzer for Venus]]
* ''[[Armageddon Hard]]''
* ''[[Armageddon Hard]]''
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]

Revision as of 08:00, 29 December 2022

Earliest known photograph of the Dart Board Galaxy.

The Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101a) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • Post @ Twitter (26 March 2022)
  • Pinwheel Galaxy @ Wikipedia - (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) - a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and was communicated that year to Charles Messier, who verified its position for inclusion in the Messier Catalogue as one of its final entries.