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Bahu was its Sanskrit name, as part of a Hindu understanding of the constellation as a running antelope or stag. [25] In traditional Chinese astronomy, the name for Betelgeuse is 参宿四 (Shēnxiùsì, the Fourth Star of the constellation of Three Stars) [202] as the Chinese constellation 参宿 originally referred to the three stars in Orion ...
The following well-known stars are listed for the purpose of comparison. Antares (α Scorpii A) 680 [70] AD Fourteenth brightest star in the night sky. [71] Widely recognised as being among the largest known stars. [21] Betelgeuse (α Orionis) 640, [72] 764 +116 −62, [73] 782 ± 55 [74] AD & SEIS Tenth brightest star in the night sky. [71]
This is a list of coolest stars and brown dwarfs discovered, arranged by decreasing temperature. The stars with temperatures lower than 2,000 K are included. Coolest main sequence stars
Stargazing apps are brilliant for spotting constellations in the night sky, looking at the planets, identifying stars, and learning about astronomy.
The Boomerang Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula [2] located 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is also known as the Bow Tie Nebula and catalogued as LEDA 3074547. [ 3 ] The nebula's temperature is measured at 1 K (−272.15 °C ; −457.87 °F ) making it the coolest natural place currently known in the Universe .
For much of the night in the northern winter, the Winter Triangle is high in the sky at mid-northern latitudes, but can also be seen during autumn in the early morning to the East. In the spring the winter triangle is visible early in the evening to the West before its stars set below the horizon .
The good news is the cloud will almost comletely clear on Saturday night, offering great views of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the early hours of Sunday morning. Here is the current forecast for ...
A star is a massive luminous spheroid astronomical object made of plasma that is held together by its own gravity.Stars exhibit great diversity in their properties (such as mass, volume, velocity, stage in stellar evolution, and distance from Earth) and some of the outliers are so disproportionate in comparison with the general population that they are considered extreme.