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In 2016, the IAU organised a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [31] to catalogue and standardise proper names for stars. In its first bulletin of July 2016, [32] the WGSN explicitly recognised the names of exoplanets and their host stars that were produced by the competition. Epsilon Eridani is now listed as Ran in the IAU Catalog of Star ...
The red dwarf, of magnitude 11, orbits the white dwarf every 250 years. The 40 Eridani system is 16 light-years from Earth. p Eridani is a binary star with two orange components, 27 light-years from Earth. The magnitude 5.8 primary and 5.9 secondary have an orbital period of 500 years. [1] Artist's impression of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting ...
In modern usage, the names applied to K-type main sequence stars vary. When explicitly defined, late K dwarfs are typically grouped with early to mid-M-class stars as red dwarfs, [4] but in other cases red dwarf is restricted just to M-class stars. [5] [6] In some cases all K stars are included as red dwarfs, [7] and occasionally even earlier ...
Epsilon Eridani b, formally named AEgir [], [3] is an exoplanet approximately 10.5 light-years away orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, in the constellation of Eridanus (the River).
K-type main-sequence stars, also known as orange dwarfs, may be candidates for supporting extraterrestrial life.These stars are known as "Goldilocks stars" as they emit enough radiation in the non-UV ray spectrum [1] to provide a temperature that allows liquid water to exist on the surface of a planet; they also remain stable in the main sequence longer than the Sun by burning their hydrogen ...
K-type main-sequence stars are main-sequence stars (luminosity class V) of spectral type K. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 ...
Eta Eridani (η Eridani, abbreviated Eta Eri, η Eri), officially named Azha (with a silent 'h', possibly / ˈ eɪ z ə /), [8] [7] is a giant star in the constellation of Eridanus. Based on parallax measurements taken during the Hipparcos mission, it is approximately 137 light-years from the Sun .
The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). [ 1 ]