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Star map with the Pleiades (upper right) and the Hyades (centre, V-shaped head of the constellation Taurus with its main star Aldebaran, γ Tauri und ε Tauri (Ain)) at both sides of the ecliptic line (dashed red). The Golden Gate of the Ecliptic is an asterism in the constellation Taurus that has been known for several thousand years.
The Pleiades (/ ˈ p l iː. ə d iː z, ˈ p l eɪ-, ˈ p l aɪ-/), [8] [9] also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
See November’s radiant full Beaver Moon this Friday, the 15th. The last supermoon of 2024, its name is less about being busy than winding down for winter...
IC 2602 (also known as the Southern Pleiades, Theta Carinae Cluster, or Caldwell 102) [4] is an open cluster in the constellation Carina. Discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa , [ 5 ] the cluster is easily visible to the unaided eye , and is one of the nearest star clusters, centred about 149 parsecs (486 light-years ) away from ...
The Sun is super active right now! ☀️ 💥 💥 The video below shows a series of flares that erupted over the past seven days… not counting another X-class flare that happened this morning ...
According to the AMS, there are four active meteor showers right now and two still to come before the end of 2024. The Orionids, which are the result of particles from Halley's Comet, will remain ...
The eccentricity of Earth's orbit will reach a minimum, 0.00236 (it is now 0.01671). [156] [157] October, 38,172 AD A transit of Uranus from Neptune, the rarest of all planetary transits. [158] 66,270 AD Sirius becomes the South Star at 1.6° of the south celestial pole, due to the combination of precession and its own proper motion. [159 ...
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