| 单词 | magellanic clouds |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMagellanic Clouds 4. transferred. Applied to the two large nebulæ ( Magellanic Clouds) near the south pole of the heavens; and to the ‘coal-sack’ ( Black Magellanic Cloud) at the foot of the Southern Cross. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > magellanic cloud(s) Magellan Cloud1615 nubecula1678 Magellanic Clouds1694 the world > the universe > constellation > nebula > [noun] > dark nebula > coal-sack cloud1694 coal sack1844 black hole1876 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 247v We..sawe manifestly twoo clowdes of reasonable bygnesse mouynge abowt the place of the pole continually. 1694 J. Narborough Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 48 The two Clouds are seen very plainly, and a small black Cloud, which the foot of the Cross is in, is always very visible when the Crosiers are above the horizon. 1710 Brit. Apollo 15–17 May What by Marriners are called Magellanic-Clouds. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Coal-sacks, An early name of some dark patches of sky in the Milky Way, nearly void of stars..The largest patch is near the Southern Cross, and called the Black Magellanic Cloud. 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. ii. 20 Multitudes of star-cloudlets scattered among the myriads of minute stars which produce the milky light of the Magellanic Clouds. < as lemmas |
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