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  • abbreviation astronomy The Great Globular Cluster of several hundred thousand stars. It lies at a distance of approximately 25,000 light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Hercules. It is the brightest and best-known globular cluster in the northern skies.

Etymologies

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From Charles Messier, who first published Nebulae and Star Clusters in 1774 as a listing of visible objects in the night sky that were not stars. Objects in Messier's catalog are numbered, and the letter M (for Messier) is prepended to these numbers.

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Examples

  • She and her team used a virus called M13, which is harmless to humans, and coated it with catalysts and plant pigments "which act as an antenna to capture the light."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • She and her team used a virus called M13, which is harmless to humans, and coated it with catalysts and plant pigments "which act as an antenna to capture the light."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • She and her team used a virus called M13, which is harmless to humans, and coated it with catalysts and plant pigments "which act as an antenna to capture the light."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • She and her team used a virus called M13, which is harmless to humans, and coated it with catalysts and plant pigments "which act as an antenna to capture the light."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • She and her team used a virus called M13, which is harmless to humans, and coated it with catalysts and plant pigments "which act as an antenna to capture the light."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The team, led by Angela Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus called M13 so that it would attract and bind with molecules of a catalyst (the team used iridium oxide) and a biological pigment (zinc porphyrins).

    D Mag - News 2010

  • The team, led by Angela Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus called M13 so that it would attract and bind with molecules of a catalyst (the team used iridium oxide) and a biological pigment (zinc porphyrins).

    Analysis 2010

  • The team, led by Angela Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus called M13 so that it would attract and bind with molecules of a catalyst (the team used iridium oxide) and a biological pigment (zinc porphyrins).

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • The team, led by Angela Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus called M13 so that it would attract and bind with molecules of a catalyst (the team used iridium oxide) and a biological pigment (zinc porphyrins).

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The team, led by Angela Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus called M13 so that it would attract and bind with molecules of a catalyst (the team used iridium oxide) and a biological pigment (zinc porphyrins).

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

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