Phoenix

Phoenix, the Phoenix, is a long-lived mythological, eagle-like bird with vivid plumage. The word has entered the language as an entity that is able to resurrect itself after a firey death in its nest.

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Phoenix, which landed on Mars on May 25, is shown in the final moments of descent in this artist's concept.

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Phoenix is a constellation in the southern hemisphere. It got its name after the mythical firebird, the phoenix.

Phoenix
Abbreviation: Phe
Genitive: Phoenicis
Translation: The Phoenix
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Phoenix, the phoenix:
This constellation first appeared in 1603. It was created by the German astronomer Johann Bayer. It is located in the far southern skies northwest of the bright star Archenar in Eridanus, the river.

Phoenix
Abbreviation: Phe English name: Phoenix, Firebird Coordinates see Stellar data
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Phoenix landed in the northern polar regions of Mars in May 2008 and continued to function two months past its warranty, until November 2008 when the falling levels of sunshine stopped operations.

Phoenix, the multi-coloured bird that ended its life on a funeral pyre, seen in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.

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Phoenix, the Phoenix or Firebird, lies at the cetner of the picture, and includes the bright luminary Ankaa. The distorted box to the left lies just above Achernar in southern Eridanus.

Phoenix is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States.

Phoenix Lands on Mars on May 25 →
The Mars Lander will begin its three-month mission to test the Martian soil and buried ice. Watch videos about the mission.

Phoenix Mars Mission: NASA lander mission; it is the first Mars "Scout class" mission to study the planet's north-pole ice cap, and the geologic history of water and habitability potential in the polar ice-rich soil.

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The Lovell radio telescopeImage: Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratory/Jodrell Bank In 1992 NASA initiated the High Resolution Microwave Survey.

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This is a small Scout mission with a lander designed to study the surface and near-surface environment of a landing site in the high-northern latitudes of Mars.

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Phoenix, Pictor(painter's easel), Pisces(fish), Piscis Austrinus(southern fish), Puppis(the stern), ...

Phoenix, Gemini Observatory
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Brown dwarf bb, left lower center,
is a less massive, cooler, and
fainter companion of Epsilon Indi
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Phoenix will be followed by the Mars Science Laboratory in 2009, a bigger, faster (90 m/hour), and smarter version of the Mars Exploration Rovers. Experiments include a laser chemical sample that can deduce the make-up of rocks at a distance of 13 m.

The Phoenix lander has uncovered frozen water under the surface of Mars, actually quite close to the surface. If you click on this image you'll see a trench that the lander dug and the white water ice in it.

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Project Phoenix will only cover a comparatively small portion of our galaxy. Our galaxy is only one of hundreds of billions of galaxies. Galaxies contain tens to hundreds of billions of stars.

NASA's Mars Phoenix lander used a robotic arm to investigates the water history of Mars.

Phe, Phoe International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Phoenix. See constellation.

Historically, two proposed solutions were the Phoenix universe of Georges Lemaître and the related oscillatory universe of Richard Chase Tolman, and the Mixmaster universe of Charles Misner.

Cepheus had a very beautiful daughter called Andromeda, who was wooed by Phoenix, who gave his name to Phoenicia, and his uncle Phineus, the brother of Cepheus.

SETI advocates did not give up, and in 1995 the nonprofit "SETI Institute" of Mountain View, California, resurrected the work under the name of "Project Phoenix", backed by private sources of funding. Project Phoenix, under the direction of Dr.

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In 1994, Congress cut the government funding for this research, and a new effort, Project Phoenix, rose from the ashes with support from private funding.

The First Contact took place on the evening of April 5, 2063, when a Vulcan survey ship, the T'Plana-Hath, having detected the warp signature of the Phoenix, touched down in Bozeman, central Montana, ...

Octans, the octant
Pavo, the peacock
Phoenix, the phoenix
Pictor, the easel
Reticulum, the net
Triangulum Australe, the southern triangle
Tucana, the toucan
Vela, the ship's sails
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Mariner (in Mariner)
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Info: This constellation is named for the Egyptian myth of the Phoenix, who burns himself every 500 years to emerge rejuvenated from the ashes.
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This galaxy, located in the constellation Phoenix, is not visible from mid-northern latitudes.
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Other names for this star are Nair al Zaurak, Cymbae, Lucida Cymbae, and the Head of Phoenix.

In 2004 the Mars Expedition Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity" landed on Mars sending back geologic data and many pictures; they are still operating after more than three years on Mars. In 2008, Phoenix landed in the northern plains to search for ...

Only much later, in the seventeenth century, would the peacock itself become part of the heavenly zoo. Johann Bayer introduced the constellation in Uranometria in 1603, along with a number of other birds: Apus, Grus, Phoenix, and Tucana.

Their use was chiefly astrological, and their highly figurative names - " Great Splendour," " Immense Void," "Fire of the Phoenix," &c. - had reference to no particular stars.

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The continual birth and rebirth of these mini-universes is often called, rather poetically, the phoenix universe.

But the size of our home system pales when compared to the interstellar dimensions. The nearest star (other than the sun), Alpha Centari, is located (on the orange scale) 3000 kilometers away (about the distance to Phoenix).

See also: Year, Time, Second, Light, Earth

Topic: Astronomy