HYDRA, in Astronomy

in astronomy, southern constellation lying S of Corvus, Crater, Virgo, Leo, and Cancer. It is a long, slender, winding constellation traditionally depicted as a snake and known also as the Water Monster or Sea Serpent. The only bright star in the constellation is Alphard (Alpha Hydrae); it is a double star, but the two components can be detected only with a telescope. Hydra reaches its highest point in the evening sky in the spring.

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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...abbreviations are commonly encountered in modern astronomy, particularly in connection with...different in different directions. In astronomy, the temperature of the cosmic...Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy AURA A consortium of US...
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Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy
Book by Lucien Rudaux, G. Vaucouleurs De, F. L. Whipple; Prometheus Press, 1962
Subjects: Astronomy
...argue that for the first time in mans history astronomy has taken its rightful place...himself. But the significance of astronomy in mans upward climb from the cave-men...compared with those we have to use in astronomy; and, indeed, astronomical has...
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Sharing the Sky: A Parent's and Teacher's Guide to Astronomy
Book by David H. Levy, Larry A. Lebofsky, Nancy R. Lebofsky; Perseus Publishing, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Study And Teaching (Elementary)
...high-drah Trying to find Hydra, the sea serpent, in the southern sky, might be as...to get the children interested in astronomy. By 1960, the telescope was...When this books authors started in astronomy in the 1950s and 1960s, the...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Book by Morton S. Roberts; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1985
Subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics
...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data...entry under title: Astronomy and astrophysics...Humanson, in Vistas in Astronomy , A. Beer, Ed...the National Radio Astronomy Observatory found...for electron beams in the loops 34...
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Popular Astronomy: Being the New Descriptive Astronomy
Book by Joel Dorman Steele; American Book Company, 1899
Subjects: Astronomy
...REFLECTING TELESCOPE, SIX FEET IN DIAMETER POPULAR ASTRONOMY BEING THE NEW DESCRIPTIVE...Lockyer Elementary Lessons in Astronomy . Proctor Star Atlas...Astronomy . Clerke History of Astronomy in Nineteenth Century . Todd...
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Blake's "Tyger" as Miltonic Beast
Journal article by Paul Miner; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 47, 2008
Subjects: Blake, William (British poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Blake, William (British poet)--Works, Milton, John (English poet)--Influence, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Influence, Poets--Works, The Tyger (Blake, William) (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...additional aspects of Blakes astronomical symbolism, see Paul Miner, "Blake and the Night Sky III: Visionary Astronomy," Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 84 (1981 1983): 305-36. (8.) David Hartley in Observations of Man conjectured that "the Art...
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Behind 'The Magus
Journal article; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 42, 1996
Subjects: Authors, English--Personal narratives, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fowles, John--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...away. But it was two or three miles. I passed an astronomy station, strangely isolated in this hill-forest. On another hill further east...uninhabited. To the right, the beautiful islands around Hydra, and Hydra itself blue and pale-green and pink...
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Human Discourse, Eros, and Madness in Plato's Republic
Journal article by David N. Mcneill; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 55, 2001
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of--Philosophy, Mental illness--Philosophy, Philosophical anthropology--Analysis, Philosophy, Ancient--Analysis, Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Republic (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...include not only number, calculation, and proportion but also space--in the study of solid geometry--and time--in the study of astronomy abstracted from the actual motion of the heavens. Time is the only content that I, at least, can give to a study...
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Slavery, Confederate Diplomacy, and the Racialist Mission of Henry Hotze
Journal article by Robert E. Bonner; Civil War History, Vol. 51, 2005
Subjects: Hotze, Henry--History, Hotze, Henry--Political activity, Slavery--History, Slavery--International aspects, Slavery--Political aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Analysis, United States history--Analysis, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...intellectual progress and racial hierarchy that Alexander Stephens had ventured in the "Cornerstone Speech," an effort that had compared fearless scientific racists to the astronomy of Galileo and the work on the circulation of the blood done by William...


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Name Games
Magazine article by Charles Liu; Natural History, Vol. 115, November 2006
Subjects: Black holes, Charged particles, Conferences, Magnetic fields, Naming rights, Radio astronomy, Radio telescopes, Star & galaxy formation, Stars & galaxies
...moons: Nix and Hydra. Historically...important roles m astronomy. By professional...discoverer. And once in a while the...field of radio astronomy. Rudolph Minkowski excelled in identifying...those emissions. In the early days of radio astronomy, it was next...
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The Dragon: Mythical Beasts of the Middle East, Part 2
Magazine article by Rachel Hajar; World and I, Vol. 14, January 1999
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Dragons--Portrayals, Mythical animals--Portrayals
...Hercules twelve labors, Hercules fights the Hydra, a many-headed serpent that grows two new heads each time one is severed. In his final labor, Hercules is sent to...Chinese influence. In the Islamic world, astronomy and astrology were closely related...


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Relatively Speaking, He's Still Light Years Ahead; It's Time to Remember Albert Einstein, Says the Birmingham Astronomical Society
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 26, 2005
Subjects: Einstein, Albert
...may see a faint circlet of stars forming the head of Hydra, the Water Snake. Its tail winds away eastwards low in the south towards Virgo. We feature the constellation...finding out more? Check out our website at: www.birmingham-astronomy.co.uk


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Hydra , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HYDRA , in astronomy in astronomy, southern constellation lying S of...or Sea Serpent. The only bright star in the constellation is Alphard (Alpha...can be detected only with a telescope. Hydra reaches its highest point in the evening...
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Pluto , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in astronomy in astronomy, a dwarf planet and the...discovery (beginning in 1992) of other Kuiper...more distant moons, Hydra and Nix, were reported...Charon completes one orbit in about 6.4 earth days. Hydra and Nix have diameters...


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