In astronomy, the fixed stars (Latin: stellae fixae) are the luminary points, mainly stars, that appear not to move relative to one another against the... 52 KB (6,758 words) - 16:14, 23 April 2024 |
The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by... 33 KB (3,274 words) - 10:32, 9 February 2024 |
The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and... 6 KB (368 words) - 20:34, 29 February 2024 |
an Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations... 17 KB (1,773 words) - 19:30, 15 April 2024 |
stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have... 146 KB (16,318 words) - 09:17, 6 May 2024 |
fixed stars. Hence, for Earth, it is also the time taken for the Sun to return to the same position relative to Earth with respect to the fixed stars... 4 KB (462 words) - 04:01, 8 April 2024 |
one approximated by the fixed stars. However, this is not required for the definition, and it is now known that those stars are in fact moving. According... 60 KB (7,808 words) - 19:14, 3 May 2024 |