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cannibal coronal mass ejections
fast-moving solar eruptions that appear to overtake and often devour their slower-moving kin
carbon star ...

 


Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, commonly known as Hannibal Hannibal's date of death is most commonly given as 183 BC, but there is a possibility it could have taken place in 182 BC.

Nihal (Nibal) would seem to derive from the name that was formerly applied by the Arabs to the four brightest stars of Lepus - Al Nihal, "The Drinking Camels." The stars were seen as camels drinking from the river of the near-by Milky Way.

81 Nihal [Nibal]: nihāl (Camels) quenching their thirst
* R Lep Hind's Crimson Star - variable 5.5 - 11.7
Stars with Bayer designations
* γ Lep - double 3.59, 6.15; δ Lep 3.76; ε Lep 3.19; ζ Lep 3.

Rotate Points Using Polar Coordinates
Rotation in Two Dimensions by Sergio Hannibal Mejia after work by Roger Germundsson and Understanding 3D Rotation by Roger Germundsson, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor some 290,000 light-years away, the star's presence supports the theory that our Galaxy underwent a "cannibal" phase, growing to its current size by swallowing dwarf galaxies and other galactic building blocks.

See also: Second, Earth, Field, Time, Force

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