Guitars crunch and whine, the ghost of Ziggy briefly flutters into view and a million ageing star children wipe tears from glittering lashes.
To do that, Project 1640 effectively blots out the light from stars, which allows astronomers to more clearly observe what might be around them, including objects up to 10 million times fainter than the star itself (the image on the right above is a nearby star captured with the imaging system in place, compared to the same star captured without the new system on the left).
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At an original cost of only 13 million 1977 dollars, that makes Star Wars an incredible steal for studio 20th Century Fox.
Fashion Star lured 4.55 million total viewers, while scoring a 1.6 demo rating among adults 18-49.
The company said it hopes to leverage the audience of a pop star who has sold 15 million albums and boasts 30 million Twitter followers.
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Mr. Flagg, a star on Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing, " first started selling homes nine years ago midway through his senior year at Beverly Hills High School, closing deals via text message in math class.
With a multi-million pound TV deal, a Premier League star on her arm, and celeb friends like Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell, it is hard to believe Christine is just like the rest of us.
Apple was the star performer, shipping 37.0 million iPhones worldwide and capturing a highest-ever 8 percent market share.
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Texas led the pack with four more votes after the Lone Star State grew by more than four million people.
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In 2010 the family earmarked 36 acres for The Trees, a mixed-use project of office, retail and residential spaces, plus a five-star hotel, covering 2.8 million square feet.
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Nickelodeon's popular Miranda Cosgrove-star vehicle iCarly averaged 7.4 million viewers in the 6- to 11-year-old demographic in recent months, while the Disney Channel still rides high from its High School Musical 2 premiere, which nabbed a record 18.6 million viewers.
She signed to Mercury Records, where she became their star female vocalist, selling more than 100 million records.
The singer has 41 million fans on Facebook and is the most popular reggae star, living or dead, on social networks, according to Starcount.
Fueled by peppy hits such as "Love Today" and "Grace Kelly, " Mika's bejeweled star shot high, with more than 6 million albums sold worldwide and top fashion designers wanting to dress him (Christian Louboutin designs shoes for the 6-foot-4 singer).
So far, just 12, 000 buildings out of the 5 million in the U.S. have earned an Energy Star rating, says Maura Beard, a communications director at the EPA for Energy Star.
Star Wars active subscribers recently fell to 1.3 million from 1.7MM despite heavy marketing and the release of two patches, Doshi adds.
Mr. Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe by noting, for instance, that the space between a star like the sun and its nearest neighbor is 30 million times the diameter of the sun itself and that there are 10 billion stars in the universe for every human being who has ever walked the Earth.
Soundbars are the rising star of the home audio sector, with 1.7 million units shipping in 2012 expected to increase to 2.1 million in 2013.
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It has grown into a city of 1.3 million people, with the beginnings of a skyline, several five-star hotels and construction cranes dotting the horizon.
According to economist Edward Castronova, at least 10 million people worldwide subscribe to an online world like World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies or WWII Online.
Knapp was a star Christian pop singer from 1994 to 2002, selling a million records between 1998 and 2002 and performing in churches across the country.
The star-studded Toulon team, who have a multi-million pound budget, will only have to travel 25 miles to Marseille's Stade Velodrome, where they have already beaten Toulouse in the Top 14 this season.
Though the primetime series deserves points for originality, only 7.8 million viewers, on average, tuned in to see Jackman and co-star Melanie Griffith break into song.
Only 63 million viewers came out across the globe to see the couch-jumper's star-studded political drama, which co-starred Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.
Scientists made the discovery first by pinpointing their target through infrared images from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and later using the Very Large Telescope to deduce that the object was both too small to be a star as well as hot and young enough (752F and under 120 million years old) to fit the behavior of a planet orphaned early into its existence.
Case in point: the current star of reality television, Kim Kardashian who has amassed a multi-million dollar fortune simply by having no shame in her game.
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Williams was arguably Britain's biggest pop star in the late 1990s and first part of the 2000s, selling 60 million solo albums and winning a record 17 Brit Awards.
While no doubt justified--the series has already shed about 25% of its audience since its early Sept. 10 premiere, which drew just 4.7 million viewers--news of its cancellation doesn't bode well for the troubled genre or series star Jerry O'Connell.
The program is the latest evolution of the CNET Editor five-star-rated IObit Game Booster software, an immensely popular precursor that has been downloaded over 100 million times.
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When asked to launch the Daily Star - the first new national tabloid for 75 years - he took it to more than a million copies within a year.
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