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Obscure Phenomenon Exciting Astronomers

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99%7Exact Match!
noun

• one celestial body obscures another

verb

• be greater in significance than

• cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention

26%4Astronomers' sketches
noun

• a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

• (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)

verb

• make a map of; show or establish the features of details of

• explore or survey for the purpose of making a map

• locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences

• plan, delineate, or arrange in detail

• depict as if on a map

• to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)

26%6 The Swordfish, to astronomers
noun

• a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud

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