1) August 1968 event 2) Bright star in Argo 3) Brightest star after sirius 4) Major star in Carina 5) Southern star 6) Star in Argo 7) Star in Carina 8) Supergiant 9) Very bright star in Argo
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1) Star
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Canopus (s; α Car, α Carinae, Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. Canopus`s visual magnitude is −0.72, and it has an absolute magnitude of −5.65. Canopus is a supergiant of spectral type F. Canopus is essentially white when seen with....
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[mythology] In Greek mythology, Canopus (or Canobus) was the pilot of the ship of King Menelaus of Sparta during the Trojan War. He is described as a young handsome man, who was loved by Theonoe, the Egyptian prophetess, but never answered her feelings. According to legend, while visiting the coasts of Egypt, he was bitten by a serpent and ...
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[nuclear test] Canopus (also Opération Canopus in French) was the code name for France`s first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China. In 1966, France was abl...
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vase for holding dead individual's inner organs
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• (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
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ancient Egyptian city on the western coast of the Nile River delta, in al-Iskandaryah mufaah (governorate). Known to the Greeks as Kanopos, its ...
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second brightest star (after Sirius) in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of 0.73. Lying in the southern constellation Carina, about 300 ... [1 related articles]
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(Alpha Carinae) Image of Canopus taken by astronaut Donald R. Pettit from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The brightest star in the constellation Carina, the second brightest star in the sky, and one of the principal stars used in spacecraft navigation. ...
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Ca·no'pus noun [ Latin
Canopus , from Greek ..., town of Egypt.]
(Astron.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
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HMS Canopus was a British first class battleship of 12950 tons launched in 1897. The Canopus Class included six battleships, all obsolete before the Great War with a top speed of just 18 knots and was armed with four 12-inch, twelve 6-inch and twenty smaller guns and four torpedo tubes. HMS Canopus fired the first shot in the Battle of The Falkland...
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n] - supergiant star 650 light years from Earth
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noun supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky
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Second-brightest star in the night sky (after Sirius), with magnitude -0.7, lying in the southern constellation Carina. It is a yellow-white supergiant about 100 light years from the Sun, and thousands of times more luminous than the Sun
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