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Artist's concept of an "uneven ring of dust" orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star. This list of stars that have unusual dimming periods is a table of stars that have been observed to darken and brighten and do not appear to be eclipsing binaries or intrinsic variables. It is based on studies searching for analogs of Tabby's Star. [1 ...
If the universe is homogeneous at a large scale, then there would be four times as many stars in a second shell between 2,000,000,000 and 2,000,000,001 light years away. However, the second shell is twice as far away, so each star in it would appear one quarter as bright as the stars in the first shell.
(The S 10 unit is defined as the surface brightness of a star whose V-magnitude is 10 and whose light is smeared over one square degree, or 27.78 mag arcsec −2.) The total sky brightness in zenith is therefore ~220 S 10 or 21.9 mag/arcsec² in the V-band. Note that the contributions from Airglow and Zodiacal light vary with the time of year ...
Stars with sizeable sunspots may show significant variations in brightness as they rotate, and brighter areas of the surface are brought into view. Bright spots also occur at the magnetic poles of magnetic stars. Stars with ellipsoidal shapes may also show changes in brightness as they present varying areas of their surfaces to the observer. [31]
The astronomical phenomenon is caused by the interaction between two stars orbiting each other. A small white dwarf, which is a dead star, is locked in a cosmic dance with a much larger red giant ...
Stars that have magnitudes between 1.5 and 2.5 are called second-magnitude; there are some 20 stars brighter than 1.5, which are first-magnitude stars (see the list of brightest stars). For example, Sirius is magnitude −1.46, Arcturus is −0.04, Aldebaran is 0.85, Spica is 1.04, and Procyon is 0.34.
In other words, less light might just be the key to better sleep. Read on to learn more about the effects of light pollution—and how to combat it. Light Pollution's Already Keeping You Up at Night
seen from 1 AU away −39.66: star R136a1: seen from 1 AU away −39.47 star P Cygni: seen from 1 AU away −38.00: star Rigel: seen from 1 AU away would be seen as a large, very bright bluish disk of 35° apparent diameter −37.42 star Betelgeuse: seen from 1 AU away −30.30: star Sirius A: seen from 1 AU away −29.30: star Sun: seen from ...