The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, on Hawaiiâs Big Island, has been monitoring volcanoes since 1912ânearly four decades before Hawaii became a state. Today itâs considered one of the worldâs leading observatories. Yet thereâs little coordination between even the best observatories in the United States.
An asterisk (*; from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek á¼ÏÏÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎºÎ¿Ï, asteriskos, little star) is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star.
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk. 2. a plant of some allied genus, as the China aster. 3. Cell Biology. a structure formed in a cell during mitosis, composed of astral rays radiating about the centrosome.