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Ponce | Caribbean, Spanish Colonial, Historic City | Britannica Ponce, major city and principal port of southern Puerto Rico The third most populous urban centre of the island, after San Juan and Bayamón, the city is situated 3 miles (5 km) north of its port, Playa de Ponce Founded in either 1670 or 1680 as Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Ponce, it was raised
Juan Ponce de León - Encyclopedia Britannica Juan Ponce de León (born 1460?, Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, León [Spain]—died 1521, Havana, Cuba) was a Spanish explorer who founded the first European settlement on Puerto Rico and who is credited with being the first European to reach Florida in 1513 Born into a noble family, Ponce de León was a page in the royal court of Aragon and later fought in a campaign against the Moors
Betelgeuse | Size, Dimming, Color, Meaning, Facts | Britannica Betelgeuse, second brightest star in the constellation Orion, marking the eastern shoulder of the hunter It has a variable apparent magnitude of about 0 6 and is one of the most luminous stars in the night sky Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star roughly 764 times as large as the Sun
Pedro Ponce de León | Benedictine Scholar, Linguist . . . - Britannica Pedro Ponce de León was a Spanish Benedictine monk believed to have been the first person to develop a method for teaching the deaf Ponce achieved his first success with Gaspard Burgos, a deaf man who, because of his difficulty with oral communication, had been denied membership in the Benedictine
Stellar classification | Types, Spectral Classes Luminosity | Britannica Stellar classification, scheme for assigning stars to types according to their temperatures as estimated from their spectra The generally accepted system of stellar classification is a combination of two classification schemes: the Harvard system, which is based on the star’s surface temperature,
Star | Definition, Light, Names, Facts | Britannica Star, any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources This article describes the properties and evolution of individual stars Included in the discussion are the sizes, energetics, temperatures, masses, and chemical compositions of stars
Sun | Definition, Composition, Properties, Temperature, Facts . . . The Sun is classified as a G2 V star, with G2 standing for the second hottest stars of the yellow G class—of surface temperature about 5,800 kelvins (K)—and the V representing a main sequence, or dwarf, star, the typical star for this temperature class
Definition, Formation, Types, Properties, Facts - Britannica Galaxies are extremely varied not only in structure but also in the amount of activity observed Some are the sites of vigorous star formation, with its attendant glowing gas and clouds of dust and molecular complexes Others, by contrast, are quiescent, having long ago ceased to form new stars