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B's two components are a primary yellow giant star and a secondary, yellow-white dwarf star in a 51.578 day orbit. [20] Alpha Herculis A is an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star, a luminous red giant that has both hydrogen and helium shells around a degenerate carbon-oxygen core. It is the second nearest AGB star to the Sun.
Ras Algethi, Rasalgethi, Rasalegti, Ras al Djathi, Caput Ingeniculi [1] μ Her: ... Colour contrasted double star 111 Her: 111: 173880: 92161: 18 h 47 m 01.22 s
A rapidly-rotating star is distorted into an oblate spheroid bulging at the equator and hotter at the poles. Alpha Ophiuchi A is a rapidly rotating star with a projected rotational velocity of 240 km s −1. [17] It is spinning at about 88.5% of the rate that would cause the star to break up. [20]
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
A man was killed by police after they say he fatally shot his wife and their 2-year-old daughter, and also injured their two other children, in Louisiana.
The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and the Arab world. Their name derives from the Arabic bahman, "root," as each was considered a source of astrological power for one or more planets.
Borrowers hoping for more financial relief from the Federal Reserve may have a wait on their hands, as the central bank is hit the pause button on additional rate cuts at its Jan. 29 meeting.
Around 160,000 tents, 150,000 toilets and a 776-mile (1,249-kilometer) drinking water pipeline have been installed at a temporary tent city covering 4,000 hectares, roughly the size of 7,500 ...