(from the article `star cluster`) ...patches of light, attention was paid to them only after the invention of the telescope. The first record of a globular cluster, in the ...
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(from the article `bazooka`) ...their short effective range (about 120 yards [110 metres]). For this reason, beginning in the Vietnam War the U.S. Army abandoned bazookas in ...
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(lifting body) NASA's homebuilt M2-F1 lifting body, left, and the Northrop M2-F2 A series of experimental lifting bodies tested by NASA in the pre-Shuttle era. From 1966 to 1975, following the cancellation of the Dyna-Soar project, NASA built and tested three differen...
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(NGC 221) A dwarf elliptical galaxy, of type E2 in Hubble`s classification, that is a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31); discovered in 1749 by Guillaume Le Gentil, it was the first elliptical to be found. M32 can be seen even in small telescopes as a slightly elonga...
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(NGC 7654) M52. Image credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF A young open cluster (Trumpler type I,2,r) in the constellation Cassiopeia that can easily be seen with binoculars. Its age has been estimated as 35 million years. NGC 7654 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1774. The brigh...
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(NGC 6981) Image credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF A globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain on Aug. 29, 1780. M72 is one of the more remote globulars included in the Messier Catalogue, lying at a distance from the Sun of about 53,000 li...
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(NGC 3034) M82. Image: Hubble Space Telescope Also known as the Cigar Galaxy, the prototype disk irregular galaxy and a physical partner of M81. It lies in the constellation Ursa Major and was discovered (together with M81) by Johann Bode in 1774. The core of M82 has...
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The M12 Gun Motor Carriage was an American self-propelled gun of the Second World War produced from 1943 to 1945. The M12 Gun Motor Carriage consisted of a slightly modified M3 Lee medium tank chassis mounted with a 155 mm M1917 or M1918 gun. The M12 Gun Motor Carriage carried a crew of six protected by armour ranging from 10 to 50 mm thick, the re...
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The M42 (Duster) is an American self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the M41 Bulldog tank and built between 1951 and 1956. The M42 is manned by a crew of six and armed with twin 40 mm anti-aircraft guns mounted in the same power-assisted turret used on the M19 of the Second World War, and a 7.62 mm machine-gun. It has a top speed of 72.5 kmh a...
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The M62 is a Japanese gas operated automatic general purpose machine-gun adopted into service with the Japanese Self-Defence Force in 1962. The M62 is chambered for the 7.62 mm x 51 round which it takes from a disintegrating link belt feed and fires with a cyclic rate of 600 rounds per minute and a muzzle velocity of 855 meters per second.
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