قصة حياة نجم .. مقال علمي كتبته قديما(2006)

Quote: A Relic of the Empire, short story by Larry Niven. Pirates raiding Puppeteer ships hide on a planet orbiting Mira Ceti- Star Trek film and television franchise- "This Side of Paradise", episode of Star Trek (TOS) television series. The Enterprise arrives at Omicron Ceti III, the site of a colony established years earlier but whose inhabitants were believed killed by (fictitious) "Berthold rays". Upon visiting the planet, the Enterprise crew is surprised to find the original colonists blissfully alive though behaving somewhat oddly. Mira would be an unlikely host for the idyllic planet depicted, given that in the present epoch its brightness varies by roughly a factor of 1000 with a period of 332 days. "Conspiracy", episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation television series. The Enterprise secretly meets three other Federation starships above Dytallix B, the fifth planet in orbit of Mira and one of seven once mined for the Federation by the Dytallix Mining Company. It is a tidally locked planet long deserted. On its surface, Capt. Picard meets with the captains of the three other starships to discuss suspicions of a possible conspiracy and infiltration of Starfleet Command. In the same episode, Lt. Cmdr. Data names the "red giant known as Mira" but an on-screen graphic identifies this system as the fictional Mira Antlia, perhaps to distinguish it from the Omicron Ceti system mentioned in the original series. In Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, the heroes arrive at a levitating island called "Mira, the City of Ilusions"- in 1959 novel War against the Rull by A.E.Van Vogt the hero is being kidnapped from earh by the Rulls an alien race and transferred in Mira 23 a planet around the sun Mira-