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OGLE-2014-BLG-1722L
OGLE-2014-BLG-1722L is a low-mass star in the Galactic bulge direction, about 6,400 parsecs from Earth, likely hosting two Saturn-mass planets found by gravitational microlensing and announced in 2018.
OGLE-2018-BLG-1011L
OGLE-2018-BLG-1011L is a 0.18-solar-mass star 7.1 kpc away with two microlensing-discovered giant planets, 1.8 and 2.8 Jupiter masses, the third and farthest known microlensing multiplanetary system (Han et al. 2019).
OGLE-2019-BLG-0468L
OGLE-2019-BLG-0468L is a microlensing planetary system ~4.4 kpc away: a G-type star with two giant planets, b (3.43 Jupiter masses, 3.29 au) and c (10.22 Jupiter masses, 2.77 au), the fourth secure microlensing multi-planet system, announced by Han et al. 2022.
OGLE-TR-10
OGLE-TR-10 is a faint G-type star toward the Galactic center hosting OGLE-TR-10b, a transiting hot Jupiter (0.62 Jupiter masses, 3.1-day period, 0.0434 AU) confirmed in 2004 by Konacki et al. via Keck radial velocities.
OGLE-TR-111
OGLE-TR-111 is a K-type star about 1,068 pc away in Carina hosting OGLE-TR-111 b, a 0.55-Jupiter-mass, Saturn-density hot Jupiter on a 4.0144477-day transiting orbit, discovered by OGLE in 2004 as the 'missing link' between transit and radial-velocity discoveries.
OGLE-TR-113
OGLE-TR-113 is a faint K-type star in Carina hosting OGLE-TR-113 b, a 1.26-Jupiter-mass very hot Jupiter in a 1.43-day, 0.0229 AU orbit, discovered in 2004 via OGLE transits plus radial velocities; orbital decay was later ruled out.
OGLE-TR-132
OGLE-TR-132 (V742 Car) is a metal-rich F-type star about 2,013 parsecs away in Carina; its planet OGLE-TR-132b is a very hot Jupiter, 1.18 Jupiter masses, in a 1.69-day, 0.03035 AU orbit, confirmed in 2004.
OGLE-TR-56
OGLE-TR-56 is a faint Sun-like star in Sagittarius hosting OGLE-TR-56 b, the second transiting exoplanet and first found photometrically, a very hot Jupiter with a 1.21-day period at 0.023 AU.
Oglemilast
Oglemilast (GRC 3886) is Glenmark's oral PDE4 inhibitor for asthma and COPD, out-licensed to Forest Labs ($190M deal) and Teijin Pharma ($53M), terminated after a failed Phase IIb COPD trial in 2009.
Oglethorpe Power
Oglethorpe Power is a not-for-profit generation and energy asset management cooperative headquartered in Tucker, Georgia, which supplies wholesale power to Georgia's electric membership corporations and co-owns the Vogtle nuclear plant.
Oglufanide
Oglufanide (thymogen, IM-862) is the INN for the dipeptide L-glutamyl-L-tryptophan, a VEGF-inhibiting antiangiogenic and immunomodulatory agent; approved in Russia, it failed Western oncology trials including a 202-patient phase III in AIDS-Kaposi sarcoma.
OGM Bodyboard Shop
OGM Bodyboard Shop is a specialized bodyboard store in Capbreton, Landes, France, run by Gontrand Marchal, selling boards, fins, and wetsuits online and in store.
OGMA
OGMA – Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal is a Portuguese aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul and aerostructures company in Alverca do Ribatejo, founded in 1918 and majority-owned by Embraer.
Ognjen Mimović (Огњен Мимовић)
Ognjen Mimović (Огњен Мимовић), Serbian right-back born 2004 in Gornji Milanovac; Fenerbahçe player since a €6.7M January 2025 transfer from Crvena Zvezda, with loans to Zenit and Pafos, and an 8-cap Serbia international.
Ognjen Ugrešić (Огњен Угрешић)
Ognjen Ugrešić (Огњен Угрешић), Serbian midfielder born 2006 in Kikinda; Partizan academy product and captain who joined PAOK in August 2026 for a reported €8 million and was called up to Serbia's national squad.
Ogo Mountains
Ogo Mountains (Buuraha Oogo, Oogo), highland belt and dissected plateau in northern Somalia and Somaliland, middle of three topographic zones between the Guban coastal plain and Haud plateau; summits near Erigavo reach about 2,400 m.
Ogonyok
Ogonyok (Огонёк, "Little Flame") was a Russian and Soviet weekly illustrated magazine published from 1899 to 2020, best known as a leading Perestroika-era publication under editor Vitaly Korotich.
Ogooué
The Ogooué (Ogowe) is Gabon's principal river, rising in the Republic of the Congo and flowing about 920–1,200 km to the Atlantic. Second-largest Central African river by discharge (~4,750 m³/s), bimodal floods, largely undammed, 308 fish species.
Ogooue - Nyanga - Kouilou - Niari
Ogooue-Nyanga-Kouilou-Niari, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 532, covers the Ogooué, Kouilou-Niari, and Nyanga river basins in Gabon, Congo, DRC, and Cabinda; about a quarter of its fishes are endemic.
Ogopogo
Ogopogo, from Syilx n'x̌ax̌aitkʷ (spirit of the lake), is the legendary lake monster of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia; named after a 1924 music-hall song, with no confirmed physical evidence, and copyright transferred to the Okanagan Nation Alliance in 2021.
Ogorek
Ogórek (Polish Cucumber) is a Nordic trick-avoidance card game, 2-8 players, six cards each; ace is high in the first five tricks but low (1 point) in the last, which alone scores penalties; 50 points eliminates.
OGPU
The OGPU (ОГПУ), or Joint State Political Directorate, was the political police and state security agency of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934, successor to the Cheka and GPU.
Ogre
Ogre: a man-eating, brutish giant of European folklore and fairy tale; French word first used by Perrault in 1697, from Latin Orcus via Italian orco; also means a cruel person.
Ogrish.com
Ogrish.com, a shock site also known as a gore website, hosted uncensored war, accident, and execution footage from June 18, 2000 until October 31, 2006, when it was rebranded as LiveLeak after German, Spanish, and US legal pressure.
Ogród Doświadczeń im. Stanisława Lema
Ogród Doświadczeń im. Stanisława Lema (Stanisław Lem Garden of Experiences), an outdoor physics education park in Kraków's Park Lotników Polskich. Opened 2007, first such park in Poland, a branch of the Museum of Engineering and Technology, with over 110 interactive installations on 6.5 hectares.
Ogród Zoobotaniczny w Toruniu
Ogród Zoobotaniczny w Toruniu (Zoobotanical Garden in Toruń), a combined zoo and botanical garden at Bydgoska 7 near Toruń's Old Town, founded 1797 by Johann Gottlieb Schultz, 8 ha, EAZA member since 2009, city-run since 1993.
Ogród Zoologiczny w Krakowie
Ogród Zoologiczny w Krakowie (Kraków Zoo), opened 6 July 1929 in Las Wolski at 345 m elevation; 20 ha, about 1,500 animals of 270+ species, EAZA member, EEP kulan coordinator, Ural owl and Andean condor reintroduction participant.
Ogtay Elgiz
Ogtay Elgiz, also known as Ogtay Eloglu (Oqtay Eloğlu), is a play by the Azerbaijani playwright Jafar Jabbarli, written in the early 1920s and staged from 1922.
Oguchi disease
Oguchi disease is a rare autosomal recessive retinal disorder causing congenital stationary night blindness and the Mizuo-Nakamura phenomenon, first described by Chuta Oguchi in Japan in 1907.
Oguchi Onyewu
Oguchi Onyewu, aka Gooch, Nigerian-American center back born 1982; 69 USMNT caps, 2006 and 2010 World Cups, Standard Liege and AC Milan; now U.S. Soccer sporting executive.