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- B -
- Backbone of the Night
The Milky Way, as referred to by the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert (Botswana).
- Big Dipper
A northerly constellation also known as The Plough. It makes up the hind
end of the much larger and encompassing constellation, Ursa Major.
- binary star
A solar system of two stars in orbit around a common center of gravity with each other.
- black hole
The region around a very small and massive collapsed star from which light cannot escape.
- blue moon
The second full moon in a calendar month.
- Bodmin Moor
Stone circles and cairns are arranged in this area of Cornwall with astronomical significance.
- Brittany
Many megaliths and passage graves from Neolithic times demark sites of interest in Brittany, which is located on
a northwesterly penninsula of France near the British Isles.
- brugh
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