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Barnard (lunar crater)
Barnard is a 115.73-km-wide lunar impact crater near the Moon's eastern limb, adopted by the IAU in 1964 and named for astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard.
Barnard (Martian crater)
Barnard is a 121 km impact crater on Mars at 61.06S, 61.59E on the southern rim of Hellas basin, IAU-named in 1973 for astronomer Edward E. Barnard; it formed ~3.81 Ga and shows eskers and glaciofluvial activity. Distinct from the lunar crater Barnard.
Barnard 68
Barnard 68 (LDN 57) is a dark molecular cloud, or Bok globule, in Ophiuchus about 500 light-years away, cataloged by Edward Barnard in 1919 and on the verge of star collapse.
Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle ('Barney') is a Teesdale market town in County Durham, England, named for the Norman Balliol castle above the River Tees; besieged in 1569, now an English Heritage ruin near the Bowes Museum.
Barnard College
Barnard College, founded 1889 in Manhattan, is a private women's liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University, sharing its instruction, libraries, and degree while keeping its own trustees, endowment, and Foundations curriculum.
Barnard Hughes
Barnard Hughes, born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes (1915–2006), American character actor who won the 1978 Tony for Da, an Emmy for Lou Grant, and starred in Doc, Mr. Merlin, and The Lost Boys.
Barnard Regio
Barnard Regio is a 3,200-km-wide dark-terrain region on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-named in 1979 for astronomer Edward E. Barnard, on the subjovian equatorial hemisphere, home to furrow systems and a ~750 x 450 km, ~3 km high megadome.
Barnard's Star
Barnard's Star, also called Barnard's Runaway Star, is a red dwarf in Ophiuchus about 6 light-years from the Sun, the closest single star to the Solar System.
Barnard's Star b
Barnard's Star b, also called Barnard b, is a sub-Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star, a red dwarf about six light-years away, discovered in 2024 with the ESPRESSO spectrograph.
Barnase
Barnase, a 110-residue guanyl-specific ribonuclease secreted by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, is neutralized by its 89-residue inhibitor barstar; the pair is used in plant male sterility, biosafety kill switches, and cancer research.
Barnaul
Barnaul (Барнаул), administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia, on the left bank of the Ob River; founded with Akinfy Demidov's 1739 copper-silver smelting works, population about 689,000 in 2024, a manufacturing-led Siberian industrial city.
Barnawa Mound
Barnawa Mound (Lakha Mandap, Lakshagriha) is a 50-ft ASI-protected archaeological mound at Barnawa, Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, identified with Mahabharata Varnavat; 2017 excavation approved, 2024 court ruled it Lakshagriha land, not a dargah.
Barnburners and Hunkers
Barnburners and Hunkers were rival 1840s New York Democratic factions: radical antislavery-extension Barnburners versus conservative, office-seeking Hunkers. Their feud split the party, fueled the 1848 Free Soil ticket under Van Buren, and later dissolved into Hards and Softs.
Barndominium
A barndominium, colloquially a barndo, is a steel- or post-frame building finished as a home, often pairing open living space with an attached shop under one roof.
Barnenez
Barnenez (Cairn de Barnenez) is a Neolithic megalithic mausoleum at Plouezoc'h, Finistère, Brittany, with 11 passage graves in a 70 m dry-stone cairn, built from about 4500 BC and excavated by Pierre-Roland Giot after 1955 quarrying damage.
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the United States with roughly 700 stores plus BN.com and NOOK, traces to 1873, was rebuilt by Leonard Riggio from 1971, and was revived under James Daunt after Elliott's 2019 acquisition. Not affiliated with Barnes & Noble Education.
Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation, founded 1922 by Albert C. Barnes in Merion, Pennsylvania, is an art education institution holding 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, and major Matisse works, moved to Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 2012 after litigation.
Barnes Ice Cap
Barnes Ice Cap, a roughly 5,900 km² bowling-pin-shaped ice cap on central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, is the last remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, holds Canada's oldest known ice (~20,000 years), and is projected to disappear within 300 years.
Barnes maze
The Barnes maze is a rodent behavioral test in which an animal on a brightly lit circular platform learns which hole leads to an escape box, measuring spatial memory.
Barnes Railway Bridge
Barnes Railway Bridge, also known as Barnes Bridge, carries the Hounslow Loop railway across the River Thames between Barnes and Chiswick, London, alongside a disused 1849 cast iron bridge.
Barnes Wallis
Barnes Wallis (1887–1979) was an English aeronautical engineer with Vickers, best known for the geodetic Wellington bomber, the R100 airship, and the bouncing bomb used in the 1943 Dambusters raid.
Barnes, London
Barnes (SW13) is a riverside village district in Richmond upon Thames, southwest London, inside a Thames meander. Known for Barnes Pond, Barnes Green, Barnes Common, St Mary's Church, the Wetland Centre, and its high share of independent shops.
Barnet F.C.
Barnet F.C., the Bees, English club founded 1888, playing at The Hive, Harrow, since 2013; four-time Conference/National League champions (1991, 2005, 2015, 2025), FA Amateur Cup winners 1946, back in EFL League Two.
Barnett formula
The Barnett formula, also known as Barnett consequentials, is the UK Treasury rule for setting changes to the devolved block grants of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was an American painter and founding member of abstract expressionism, best known for large fields of solid color divided by narrow vertical bands he called "zips."
Barnett Rosenberg
Barnett Rosenberg (1926–2009) was an American biophysicist at Michigan State University who discovered in 1965 that a platinum compound stopped cell division, leading to cisplatin.
Barnett Shale
The Barnett Shale is a hydrocarbon-producing rock formation in north-central Texas covering about 5,000 square miles, the play where commercial shale gas production was first worked out.
Barney (franchise)
Barney is an American children's media franchise centered on a purple Tyrannosaurus rex who teaches preschoolers through songs, known through the PBS series Barney & Friends.
Barney & Friends
Barney & Friends is an American children's television series on PBS from 1992 to 2010, starring Barney, a purple Tyrannosaurus rex who teaches young children through song and dance.
Barney and Betty Hill incident
Barney and Betty Hill incident, also called the Hill Abduction or Zeta Reticuli Incident: a September 19–20, 1961 reported UFO encounter near Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, the first widely publicized American alien-abduction account, told through 1964 hypnosis and John Fuller's 1966 book The Interrupted Journey.