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A star is really meant to be a single sellar object, not just somehting that looks like a star from earth. However, in many cases, other objects, such as multi-star systems, were originally thought to be stars. Because people have historically...
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| Beta Ursae Majoris | Celestial Object | Ursa Major |
Beta Ursae Majoris (β UMa / β Ursae Majoris) is a star in the constellation of Ursa Major. It also has the traditional name Merak.
It is more familiar to northern hemisphere observers as one of the "pointer stars" in the Big Dipper, and a line...
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Celestial Object | Ursa Minor |
Polaris (α UMi / α Ursae Minoris / Alpha Ursae Minoris), more commonly known as the North(ern) Star or the Pole Star, and sometimes known as the Lodestar, is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial...
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| GJ 388 | Celestial Object | Leo |
GJ 388 is a red dwarf star. It is located relatively near our Sun, at a distance of 15.94 light year, in the constellation Leo.
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| Epsilon Sagittarii | Celestial Object | Sagittarius |
Epsilon Sagittarii (ε Sgr / ε Sagittarii) is a binary star that lies 144.64 light-year distant in the constellation Sagittarius. It has a faint, 14th magnitude companion, Epsilon Sagittarii B, 32 arcsecond distant.
The star forms the base of the...
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| J Centauri | Celestial Object | Centaurus |
J Centauri (J Cen) is a star in the constellation Centaurus. It is approximately 355 light year from Earth.
J Centauri is a blue-white B-type main sequence dwarf with a mean apparent magnitude of +4.52. It is classified as a Beta Cephei type...
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| Alpha Leporis | Celestial Object | Lepus |
Alpha Leporis (α Lep / α Leporis) is the brightest star in the constellation Lepus. It also has the traditional name Arneb (hare in Arabic).
Alpha Leporis is an older, dying star that may have already passed through a supergiant phase and is now...
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| 14 Herculis |
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Celestial Object | Hercules |
14 Herculis is an orange dwarf star approximately 59 light-year away in the constellation Hercules. Because of its apparent magnitude, the star cannot be seen with the naked eye. As of 2006, it is though that 14 Herculis has two extrasolar planet in...
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| Procyon |
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Celestial Object | Canis Minor |
Procyon (α CMi / α Canis Minoris / Alpha Canis Minoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor. To the naked eye, it appears to be a single star, the eighth brightest in the night sky with a visual apparent magnitude of 0.34. It is...
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| YZ Ceti | Celestial Object | Cetus |
YZ Ceti is a red dwarf star in the constellation Cetus. Although it is relatively close to the Sun at just over 12 light year, this star can not be seen with the naked eye. It is classified as a flare star that undergoes intermittent fluctuations in...
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| La Superba | Celestial Object | Canes Venatici |
La Superba (Y CVn / Y Canum Venaticorum) is a star in the constellation Canes Venatici, well-known for its strikingly red appearance.
La Superba is a semi-regular variable star, peaking at about +4.8 mag and diminishing to around +6.3 over a 160...
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| HD 224693 | Celestial Object | Cetus |
HD 224693 (also known as HIP 118319) is a yellow subgiant star approximately 307 light-year away in the constellation Cetus.
As of 2006, an extrasolar planet is known to orbit HD 224693.
HD 224693 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting its star...
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| Eta Ophiuchi | Celestial Object | Ophiuchus |
Eta Ophiuchi (η Oph / η Ophiuchi) is a star in the constellation Ophiuchus. It also has the traditional name Sabik.
η Oph is actually a binary star system that is difficult to resolve in amateur telescopes but whose true nature has been determined...
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| Chi1 Orionis | Celestial Object | Orion |
Chi Orionis (χ Ori / χ Orionis) is a star about 32 light year away from Earth. It is in the constellation Orion.
χ Ori is a main sequence dwarf star of spectral type G0 V. It has a faint companion with an estimated mass of about 15% of the Sun, an...
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| Gliese 673 | Celestial Object | Ophiuchus |
Gliese 673 is a cool, orange dwarf star in the constellation Ophiuchus. The estimates of its stellar classification range from K5 to K7. Main sequence stars with this spectra have a mass in the range of 60-70% of a solar mass (comparable to the...
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| Rho Cassiopeiae | Celestial Object | Cassiopeia |
Rho Cassiopeiae (ρ Cas / ρ Cassiopeiae) is a yellow hypergiant in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is about 11,650 light-year away, yet can still be seen by the naked eye (in the Northern Hemisphere only), as it is 550,000 times as luminous as the...
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| HD 38529 | Celestial Object | Orion |
HD 38529 (also known as HR 1988) is a binary star approximately 138 light-year away in the constellation of Orion.
HD 38529 A is a yellow subgiant star, which has also been classified as a main sequence dwarf of spectral type G4V. It is about 40%...
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| 82 Eridani | Celestial Object | Eridanus |
82 Eridani is a star about 20 light year away from Earth. It is in constellation Eridanus. It is a main sequence star of spectral type G5.
82 G. Eridani (often abbreviated "82 Eridani") is the 82nd star in Eridanus in the now-obscure catalog...
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| Rigel |
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Celestial Object | Orion |
Rigel (β Orionis, beta Ori) is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the sixth brightest star in the sky, with visual magnitude 0.18. Although it has the Bayer designation "beta", it is almost always brighter than Alpha Orionis ...
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| VV Cephei | Celestial Object | Cepheus |
VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 3,000 light years from Earth.A red supergiant fills the system's Roche lobe when closest to its companion blue star, the latter appearing to be on the...
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| Iota Persei | Celestial Object | Perseus |
Iota Persei (ι Per / ι Persei) is a main sequence dwarf star in the constellation Perseus. It is somewhat larger and greater in mass than the Sun, and is located about 34 light year distant. Iota Persei has a relatively high proper motion across the...
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| HD 211415 | Celestial Object | Grus |
HD 211415 is a binary star system in the constellation Grus. It has a relatively high proper motion and is located about 44 light year from the Sun.
These two stars have an orbit with a semi-major axis of 3.4″, which is approximately equal to 46 A...
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| Achernar |
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Celestial Object | Eridanus |
Achernar (α Eri / α Eridani / Alpha Eridani), sometimes spelled Achenar, is the brightest star in the constellation Eridanus and the eighth-brightest star in the nighttime sky. It lies at the southern tip of the constellation.
Achernar is a bright,...
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| HR 753 | Celestial Object | Cetus |
HR 753 (Harvard Revised 753) is a triple star system in the constellation of Cetus. It is located relatively near the Sun at an estimated distance of less than 24 light year, but even the brightest component is too faint to see directly with the...
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| 79 Ceti |
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Celestial Object | Cetus |
79 Ceti (also known as HD 16141) is a yellow subgiant star approximately 117 light-year away in the constellation Cetus. It has stopped hydrogen fusion in its core, this implies an age much higher than our Sun's 4.5 billion year. Eventually the...
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| SCR 1845-6357 |
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Celestial Object | Pavo |
SCR 1845-6357 is a binary system, about 12.6 light-year away in the constellation Pavo. The primary, SCR 1845-6357A, is a red dwarf star with a mass of about 7% of the Sun's. However the measurements are still preliminary and are subject to change.
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| HD 149026 | Celestial Object | Hercules |
HD 149026 is a yellow subgiant star approximately 257 light-year away in the constellation of Hercules. The star is thought to be much more massive, larger, and brighter than the Sun. As of 2005, an extrasolar planet has been confirmed to be...
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| L Centauri | Celestial Object | Centaurus |
HD 110073 (Bayer designation l Cen / l Centauri) is a star in the constellation Centaurus. It is a blue-white B-type bright giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.63 and is approximately 355 light years from Earth.
Centauri, l110073
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| 25 Arietis | Celestial Object | Cetus |
25 Arietis is a star in the constellation Cetus. Its apparent magnitude is +6.45.
Arietis, 25
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| 100 Aquarii | Celestial Object | Aquarius |
100 Aquarii (100 Aqr) is a star in the constellation of Aquarius.
Aquarii, 100
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| Gamma Velorum | Celestial Object | Vela |
Gamma Velorum (γ Vel/γ Velorum) is a star system in the constellation Vela. At magnitude +1.7, it is one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. It has the traditional names Suhail or Al Suhail al-Muhlif (confusingly, the name Suhail can also...
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