- Dubuque County, Iowa (data.census.gov)
Dubuque County, Iowa has 608.3 square miles of land area and is the 21st largest county in Iowa by total area. Dubuque County, Iowa is bordered by Grant County, Wisconsin, Clayton County, Iowa, Delaware County, Iowa, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Jackson County, Iowa, and Jones County, Iowa.
- Betelgeuse (Wikipedia)
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star of spectral type M1-2 and one of the largest visible to the naked eye. It is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish, semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude, varying between +0.0 and +1.6, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star. At near-infrared wavelengths, Betelgeuse is the brightest star in the night sky. Its Bayer designation is α Orionis, Latinised to Alpha Orionis and abbreviated Alpha Ori or α Ori.