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Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy 's 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modern constellations . Its name is Latin for "greater dog" in contrast to Canis Minor , the "lesser dog"; both figures are commonly represented as following the constellation ...
10 Canis Majoris is 8.2 [8] million years old with 19.2 [8] times the mass of the Sun and 10 [9] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating around 44,000 [ 10 ] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 25,000 K. [ 10 ] There is a magnitude 12.58 visual companion at an angular separation of 37.3 ″ along ...
FN Canis Majoris is a binary star [4] system in the southern constellation Canis Major, near the northern constellation border with Monoceros. It is dimly visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.41. [ 3 ]
Beta Canis Majoris (β Canis Majoris, abbreviated Beta CMa, β CMa), also named Mirzam / ˈ m ɜːr z əm /, [13] is a star in the southern constellation of Canis Major, the "Great Dog", located at a distance of about 500 light-years (150 parsecs) from the Sun. [1] In the modern constellation it lies at the position of the dog's front leg.
17 Canis Majoris is a single [6] star in the southern constellation of Canis Major, located 610 light years away from the Sun. [1] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.80. [2] The object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −13 km/s. [2]
Zeta Canis Majoris, or ζ Canis Majoris, also named Furud / ˈ f jʊər ə d /, [14] is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Canis Major. This system has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.0, [ 2 ] making it one of the brighter stars in the constellation and hence readily visible to the naked eye.
Artist's illustration of Wezen, a yellow supergiant 1,600 light-years away in the Canis Major constellation. Delta Canis Majoris is a supergiant of class F8. Its surface temperature is around 5,818 K, [12] and it is 14 to 15 times more massive than the Sun. Its absolute magnitude is −6.77, [8] and it lies around 1,600 light-years away. It is ...
26 Canis Majoris is a variable star in the southern constellation of Canis Major, [10] located around 1,010 light years away from the Sun. [2] It has the variable star designation MM Canis Majoris; 26 Canis Majoris is the Flamsteed designation. [10]