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Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has the Bayer designation α Aurigae , which is Latinised to Alpha Aurigae and abbreviated Alpha Aur or α Aur . Capella is the sixth-brightest star in the night sky , and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega .
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Auriga, sorted by decreasing ... "Identification of a Constellation from ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
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Messier 38 or M38, also known as NGC 1912 or Starfish Cluster, [4] is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Auriga. It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently found by Le Gentil in 1749. The open clusters M36 and M37, also discovered by Hodierna, are often grouped together with M38. [5]
AB Aurigae is a young Herbig Ae star [3] in the Auriga constellation. It is located at a distance of approximately 509 light years from the Sun based on stellar parallax. [1] This pre-main-sequence star has a stellar classification of A0Ve, [4] matching an A-type main-sequence star with emission lines in the spectrum.
Theta Aurigae (Latinized from θ Aurigae, abbreviated Theta Aur, θ Aur) is a binary star in the constellation of Auriga. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this system is about 166 light-years (51 parsecs). [1] The two components are designated Theta Aurigae A (also named Mahasim [10]) and B.
AURIGA (Antenna Ultracriogenica Risonante per l'Indagine Gravitazionale Astronomica) is an ultracryogenic resonant bar gravitational wave detector in Italy. [1] It is at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , near Padova . [ 2 ]
Epsilon Aurigae (ε Aurigae, abbreviated Epsilon Aur, ε Aur) is a multiple star system in the northern constellation of Auriga, the charioteer.It is an unusual eclipsing binary system comprising an F0 supergiant (officially named Almaaz / æ l ˈ m ɑː z /, the traditional name for the system) and a companion which is generally accepted to be a huge dark disk orbiting an unknown object ...