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sky map

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sky map [′skī ‚map]
(astronomy)
A planar representation of areas of the sky showing positions of celestial bodies.
(meteorology)
A pattern of variable brightness observable on the underside of a cloud layer, and caused by the different reflectivities of material on the earth's surface immediately beneath the clouds; this term is used mainly in polar regions.


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Byline: ANI Washington, October 16 (ANI): NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy.
Since your review I have been correcting all the little errors including the standardized numbering of numbers greater than 1,000, the symbols for arc-minutes and seconds, the limiting magnitude labels on some of the all sky maps, the orientation of text of the Aquarius chart, the degrees Celsius symbols, and the page numbering with "normal" numbers.
 
 
 
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