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IRAS 04125+2902 is a M-type star and a T Tauri variable [6] located in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, 160 parsecs (520 light-years) from Earth. [4] This young protostar has 70% of the Sun's mass, 1.45 times the Sun's radius and an effective temperature of 4,080 K (3,810 °C; 6,880 °F).
The fixed stars includes all the stars visible to the naked eye other than the Sun, as well as the faint band of the Milky Way. Due to their star-like appearance when viewed with the naked eye, the few visible individual nebulae and other deep-sky objects also are counted among the fixed stars. Approximately 6,000 stars are visible to the naked ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Our current view of the night sky is “deteriorating” so rapidly that a clear change will be noticeable in a generation, researchers said. Over half the stars we see now won’t be visible in ...
Timelapses are a great way to get a sense of the green comet’s movement in relation to the stars and constellations in the background. What green comet looks like through telescope Wednesday 1 ...
The ‘shooting star’ meteors will emanate from the Gemini constellation, which will be relatively well placed in the sky to avoid the worst impacts of the 92 per cent full Moon.
Below there are lists the nearest stars separated by spectral type. The scope of the list is still restricted to the main sequence spectral types: M , K , F , G , A , B and O . It may be later expanded to other types, such as S , D or C .
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