• The sun-mirror (Chinese: 陽燧; pinyin: yángsuì) and moon-mirror (Chinese: 方諸; pinyin: fāngzhū) were bronze tools used in ancient China. A sun-mirror was...
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  • and excluded Earth, plus the Sun and Moon. Although the Greek term planet applied mostly to the five 'wandering stars', the Ancients included the Sun...
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    Bill Anders of Apollo 8. The Earth appears in the Moon's sky with an apparent size of 1° 48′ to 2°, three to four times the size of the Moon or Sun in Earth's...
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  • Till the End of the Moon (Chinese: 长月烬明; pinyin: Chángyuè Jìn Míng) is a Chinese television series based on the novel Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script...
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    Chang'e (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    the Moon with her pet Yu Tu, the Moon Rabbit and living in the Moon Palace (廣寒宮). She is one of the major goddesses in Chinese mythology, Chinese folk...
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    Monkey King (redirect from Sun Wukong)
    The Monkey King or Sun Wukong (simplified Chinese: 孙悟空; traditional Chinese: 孫悟空; pinyin: Sūn Wù Kōng) is a fictional character best known as one of the...
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    Taiyin Xingjun (category CS1 Traditional Chinese-language sources (zh-hant))
    Taiyin Xingjun (Chinese: 太阴星君) is the Chinese goddess of the moon. While often intertwined with the legend of Chang'e, Taiyin Xingjun is the original...
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    The Chinese used a lunisolar calendar, but as the cycles of the Sun and the Moon are different, leap months had to be inserted regularly. The Chinese calendar...
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    most cases an interference layer. This may be a planar mirror or parabolic arrays of solar mirrors used to achieve a substantially concentrated reflection...
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    the Sun or Moon) interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spots...
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