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Caffau's star was identified as the most metal-poor star yet when it was found in 2012 using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. However, in February 2014 the discovery of an even lower-metallicity star was announced, SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 located with the aid of SkyMapper astronomical survey data.
Phoenix is a minor constellation in the southern sky. Named after the mythical phoenix , it was first depicted on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria . The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted the brighter stars and gave their Bayer designations in 1756.
Alpha Phoenicis is the star's Bayer designation. It also bore the traditional name Ankaa sometime after 1800, from the Arabic العنقاء al-ʽanqāʼ "the phoenix" for the name of the constellation. [13] The International Astronomical Union has formally adopted the Ankaa as the proper name for Alpha Phoenicis. [14]
The moment when the first stars in the universe lit up was detected by scientists this week in a revolutionary finding through a faint radio signal. Signal detected from 'cosmic dawn,' the birth ...
Also the sixth-nearest stellar system to the Solar System and the brightest star in the night sky. Altair: 16.7 [224] A7Vn [109] 2.01 × 1.57 [225] 1.86 ± 0.03 [225] 0.76 [54] 2.22 [226] 12th brightest star in the night sky. Vega: 25.04 ± 0.07: A0Va [109] 2.726 × 2.418 [227] 2.135 ± 0.074 [228] 0.026 [229] 0.582 [230] Fifth-brightest star ...
Stargazers should prepare to lose sleep on Tuesday, Aug. 12, as two celestial sights unfold. The first event will be visible before sunrise and will feature the two brightest planets in the sky ...
Sky-gazers won’t want to miss the event since it may be the last time the comet will be seen in the night sky for another 80,000 years. ... path around the parent star, on September 27, and was ...