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  Orion (constellation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orion, a constellation often referred to as The Hunter, is a prominent constellation, perhaps the best-known in the sky.
In Australia, the belt and sword of Orion are sometimes called the Saucepan, because the stars of Orion's belt and sword resemble this kitchen utensil as seen from the southern hemisphere.
Orion is stung to death by the scorpion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orion_(constellation)   (1233 words)

  
 eSky: Orion
A key feature of Orion's constellation is his Belt of three bright stars that form a nearly straight line across its central parts.
In the direction of the constellation of Orion is the dense heart of this galactic arm, and so this part of the sky is filled with nebulous regions.
The region around the Belt and Sword of Orion, on the edge of the Molecular Cloud, is so active that it exerts immense pressure on the surrounding interstellar material.
www.glyphweb.com /esky/constellations/orion.html   (648 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Reviews
But 'Sword of Orion' has aged well; derivative it may be, but its full of grittiness and tension that makes it a classic example of a triumph of style over substance.
Whilst 'Sword of Orion' lacks the sheer horror of, for example, 'Spare Parts', it also on occasion lifts the horror of the Cybermen beyond what could be reasonably depicted in the television series, with rotting semi-converted humans littering the star destroyer and several grizzly deaths, most notably Mark Kelsey's.
Her worst moment in 'Sword of Orion' is entirely Briggs fault; at the end of Episode Four, she states "They tried to improve themselvesÂ… but they got it wrong", a nauseating summation of the moral of the story that sounds like it ought to be in an episode of Thundercats.
www.gallifreyone.com /review.php?id=bf-17   (4379 words)

  
 Sword of Orion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sword of Orion is what I'd call a "pure" science fiction story, featuring a lot of technical jargon, a bevy of hardened space travellers, and no ghosts in sight (for a while there, every Big Finish story was about bloody ghosts!).
Sword of Orion is, for the most part, suspenseful and engaging.
In the final analysis, Sword of Orion is a mixed bag (I believe you Brits would refer to it as a "curate's egg," whatever the hell that means!).
www.angelfire.com /scifi/hartnell/orion.html   (284 words)

  
 Orion
Orion, the splendid huntsman, was famous for his prowess both as a hunter and as a lover.
Orion seems oblivious to the advances of these two goddesses as he moves across the Winter sky, when Orion sets in the west, however, his stars fade very slowly, which means that the Dawn tries to stay by his side as long as possible.
In early Arabia Orion was Al Jauzak, originally it was the term used for a fl sheep with a white spot on the middle of the body, the Walnut, the Strong One.
www.winshop.com.au /annew/Orion.html   (3635 words)

  
 Hunting Orion
Orion is instead made of a grand assembly of hot, blue-white, massive class O and B stars called Orion OB1.
The Orion Nebula shines by a form of fluorescence, its radiating gases ionized by the ultraviolet light from a set of four hot stars that appear in the middle collectively known as the Trapezium (Theta-1 Ori), most of the energy coming from Theta-1 C, a 40-solar-mass O6 star heated to 40,000 Kelvin.
Orion, as in the myths of the ancient Hunter, is doomed, his stars exploding him into non-existence (stellar motions doing that anyway).
www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/orihunter.html   (1394 words)

  
 2MASS Showcase Caption: Sword of Orion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In the constellation of Orion, the hunter's belt is seen as three distinctive stars in a row.
At a distance of 1500 light years, this is the nearest large region of star formation and is one of the most intensly studied regions of the sky.
A giant stellar nursery, the Orion nebula is home to thousands of young stars, some of which are known to have disks of dust that may be forming new planets.
www.ipac.caltech.edu /2mass/gallery/showcase/orion/caption.html   (272 words)

  
 Sword of Orion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sword of Orion is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
This audio drama will be broadcast on BBC 7 on 13 August 2005.
The Eight Doctor and Charley encounter the Cybermen in the Orion system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sword_of_Orion   (80 words)

  
 Constellation Orion
From his belt there hangs a well defined dagger (known as "Sword of Orion"), which is known for one of the most famous nebulas in the sky: The Large Orion Nebula (M42).
Orion lies close enough to the Milky Way to be interesting enough to be swept even with low-power telescopes or binoculars.
The Messier database has detailed information about The Large Orion Nebula M 42 and M 43, the DeMairan nebula, which is a part of the Orion Nebula.
www.maa.mhn.de /Maps/Stars_en/Fig/orion.html   (917 words)

  
 Orion's Quest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Thus, Orion constantly berated the poor folk of the kingdom, calling them "worthless rats." On the field of battle, Orion was a bloodthirsty animal, for victory, to him, meant total destruction of the enemy and woe to the man who met him in battle, for Orion would not leave him alive.
Orion quickly drew his sword, prepared to vent his anger on the old man. However, where the old man once stood, there was now a tall, youthful man in his place.
Orion cautiously opened the door and was greeted by the image of a man with slate-gray eyes which burned with insanity.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /english/fajardo/teaching/ENG340/celston1.htm   (5986 words)

  
 The Orion Cloud and Association
These young stars make up the so-called Orion OB1 Association; OB because the most massive, most luminous, and simultaneously hottest of these stars belong to spectral types O and B. Because they are so luminous, they use up their nuclear fuel quickly and have only a short time to live.
The stars of the Orion Nebula, M42 and M43, form a subset of this group, and are sometimes separately counted as subgroup 1d, the very youngest stars of the Orion OB1 association.
At the upper left is the nebula complex around the star Zeta Orionis, consisting of bright Orion B (NGC 2024) left of the star, and IC 434 with the conspicuous dark Horsehead Nebula, plus various small nebulae.
www.seds.org /messier/more/oricloud.html   (691 words)

  
 Product Listing name:Sword Of ...
Occasionally throughout the ages, a sword of exceptional quality and appearance is created.
IMPORTANT: The hilt of the Sword of Orion comes in these colors: solid purple (pictured), a purple hilt whose diamonds are painted red, solid gold, and solid red.
This indicates that your primary preference is for a purple Orion, but that if there are no more straight purple ones left that you will accept one with a gold hilt, and if none of those remain in stock, you will accept a purple onee whose diamonds are painted red.
king-cart.com /cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=oknight&product=name:Sword+Of+...   (221 words)

  
 Roaming the Deep Sky #1
The first object on the north side of the field (or top of the Sword) is an open cluster, NGC1981.
Next in line as we move down the Sword is M43 (a "detached ", smaller piece of the Orion Nebula) followed closely by M42, the Great Orion Nebula.
Nearly the entire length of the Sword is involved in nebulosity with M42 easily being the brightest portion.
home.insightbb.com /~lasweb/lessons/RDS01-TheSwordofOrion.htm   (497 words)

  
 The Belt and Sword of Orion
Every astrophotographer will sooner or later shoot an image like this, for simplicity because it is located in Orion and because they are such well known objects.
T he three bright stars at the left of the image, nearly aligned on a diagonal are the Belt of Orion.
The Orion Nebula with its stars around it are called the Sword of Orion.
www.astro.uu.nl /~bassa/gallery/orion_neb.htm   (89 words)

  
 APOD: 2002 May 30 - Orion Nebulosities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas.
The magnificent Orion Nebula (aka M42) lies at the bottom of the image.
Alnitak is the easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star above the Horsehead.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap020530.html   (233 words)

  
 Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula is easily visible with the naked eye as the middle star in Orion's "sword".
The Orion Nebula is the nearest star formation region to the Earth and consequently particularly well studied.
The Orion Nebula is actually just part of a much larger cloud that covers most of the constellation of Orion (including the region around the Horsehead Nebula).
astro.nineplanets.org /twn/n1976x.html   (198 words)

  
 AV17 - Sword of Orion - Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sword of Orion without that music would be unrecognizable and simply not very good.
Sword of Orion sticks in My memory a bit better I was meant to play one of the cybermen as well as the parts of Grash and the wet guy in the opening scene.
We were just capitalizing on the idea that Sword of Orion was very popular as an audio, and people would know what it was.
web1.2020media.com /j/justyce/av17-comments.html   (1501 words)

  
 Llewellyn Encyclopedia
Al Hak'ah : The third Mansion of the Moon, corresponding to the constellation Orion.
Athame : A tool used by Witches that combines the functioning of both wand and sword is the athame, or magical knife.
The white and fl-hilted knives are in some ways analogous to the wand and sword of high magic.
www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /glossary.php   (5324 words)

  
 Sword Region in Orion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is the "Sword" region easily seen by naked eye below the "Belt" of Orion.
Binoculars begin to hint at its true cloudy nature, but a telescope reveals it to be the tumultuous cocoon of active star birth that it is. Known as M42 (M43 is the bright knot just above it), this stunning object is 1500 light-years distant and about 30 light years across.
The upper object in the Sword is the blue reflection nebula NGC 1977.
www.stormpages.com /machunter/hap_sword.html   (153 words)

  
 Messier Object 42
Located at a distance of about 1,600 (or perhaps 1,500) light years, the Orion Nebula is the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, visible to the naked eye, and rewarding in telescopes of every size, from the smallest glasses to the greatest Earth-bound observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope.
As the drawings of the Orion Nebula known to him did so poorly represent Messier's impression, he created a fine drawing of this Object, in order to "help to recognize it again, provided that it is not subject to change with time" (as Messier states in the introduction to his catalog).
The past decades of research on the Orion Nebula have revealed that the visible nebula, M42, the blister of hot, photo-ionized, luminous gas around hot Trapezium stars, is only a thin layer lying on the surface of a much larger cloud of denser matter, the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC 1).
www.seds.org /messier/m/m042.html   (1607 words)

  
 DiscContinuity: 'Sword of Orion'
The Orion War, a conflict between humans and android life forms is part of the recent past, its effects still being felt to the common belief that there are, apparently, no androids outside of the Orion system.
The Orion War begins eight years previous to the events of this story, its origins in protests by androids (largely manufactured in factories in the Orion System) of mistreatment and the creation of android tribunals into such claims.
In effect androids, along with some other genetic constructs, are outlawed from human society and returned to the place of their creation, issuing an ultimatum to the humans who lived there: accept android life forms as equals or leave.
www.tetrap.com /drwho/disccon/8/sword.html   (1144 words)

  
 MY MP3 Lyrics - Sword Of Orion -- Vangelis Song, Music, Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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www.mymp3lyrics.com /artist-vangelis/song-Sword%20of%20Orion.html   (200 words)

  
 The Sword of Orion BBS Nostalgia Page.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sword of Orion started life late 1991 as a part time BBS running on an Amiga 500 specialising in Amiga software and supporting Amiga enthusiasts.
Running Wildcat BBS software, the 286 was eventually upgraded to a 386, 486 and then to a Pentium 100 (Sheer extravagance at the time!) Software upgrades included DR-DOS, MS-DOS and then on to OS/2 Warp Ver 3 (To run a multinode system).
1999 - After running in one form or another for 8 years The Sword of Orion BBS is finally closed down.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~Svmalkin/orion.htm   (500 words)

  
 Cybermen Stories: Sword of Orion
Captain Jansen is still suspicious of the Doctor and Charley, but she believes that are not strong enough to have been Kelsey's attackers.
Grash suggests they may be androids fleeing the Orion War, but Deeva Jansen is certain no androids exist outside of that system.
Charley is curious about just what is the Orion War, and what it has to do with androids.
www.geocities.com /joekano/cybermen/sword_orion.htm   (6459 words)

  
 The Tertiary Console Room: Doctor Who - Sword Of Orion
The human race is locked in deadly combat with the 'Android Hordes' in the Orion System.
Light years from the front line, the Doctor and Charley arrive to sample the dubious delights of a galactic backwater, little suspecting that the consequences of the Orion War might reach them there.
Sword Of Orion features the return of the Cybermen, who are making their audio debut.
www.tertiary.consoleroom.btinternet.co.uk /bf17.htm   (397 words)

  
 Sword of Orion
The Sword of Orion - M42, M43, The Running Man, and NGC 1981
The "sword of Orion" extends from near the belt stars of the constellation of Orion through the bottom of the Great Orion Nebula, shown here at the bottom of the image.
At the top of the image is a spectacular group of 8 stars of similar magnitude known as NGC 1981.
www.allaboutastro.com /SwordofOrion.html   (233 words)

  
 Sword of Orion
This is a new version of an Audio Visuals story also titled A savage conflict in the Orion system has repercussions, even in the derelict hulk riddled wastes of Garrazone.
This is the future; the Orion war continues with no end in sight, while the ion storm Protyon drifts to the fringes of the Garazone system.
The Orion war; to Ike it's current events, to the Doctor it's past history he needs reminding of, and to Charley it's an appalling glimpse of her race's future.
www.drwhoguide.com /who_bf17.htm   (5164 words)

  
 Orion's Sword...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The three 'stars' that comprise the sword in the constellation Orion...
This nebula is one of the largest swaths of glowing hydrogen (HII) ever observed...
This shot was digitally enhanced from a single 30 minute exposure on 35mm Kodak PJ 400 ISO color print film through a 135mm fl Canon SC camera lens working @ f4.8.
home.att.net /~astropix/M42_135mm.html   (224 words)

  
 Quotes from The Sword of Orion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
"Ten years ago a sixty-eight foot merit class yacht called The Sword of Orion, which was favored to win, went massively and inexplicably off course and into the path of winds gusting up to ninety miles per hour with thirty foot seas.
The tactician, who was the son of the boat's owner, was thrown overboard and drowned.
So this great pink star in the sword of Orion turns out to be something...
sportsnight.tktv.net /Episodes1/quotes/18.html   (524 words)

  
 Japanese sword as katana,Samurai and Bushido Culture-top
For Samurai, Japanese sword (Katana) was more important than his life.
Japanese sword (Katana) was equal to soul of Bushido.
So Japanese sword (Katana) had to be not only tough and sharp but also beautiful.
www.jidai.jp   (258 words)

  
 Attacking the X-ray emission properties of young stars with the Sword of Orion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Attacking the X-ray emission properties of young stars with the Sword of Orion
The impact of these circumstances upon a stellar magnetic dynamo, the structure of magnetic field on the star and in its immediate environment, and resultantly the amount, location and temperature of X-ray-emitting hot plasma within the system is an issue of intense current interest.
We use XMM-Newton to examine the X-ray emission properties of young stars in the Sword of Orion, and their dependencies on fundamental stellar parameters and environmental features.
www.hs.uni-hamburg.de /cs13/abstract11.html   (201 words)

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