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Initially, the 10 suns would cross the sky one by one, but one day the 10 suns decided to come out all at once so that they could play with each other, and scorched the earth. Hou Yi was tasked by the mythical Emperor Yao—in some versions, the Jade Emperor—to rein in the suns. Hou Yi first tried to reason with the suns.
The Sun is the brightest star as viewed from Earth, at −26.78 mag. The second brightest is Sirius at −1.46 mag. For comparison, the brightest non-stellar objects in the Solar System have maximum brightnesses of: the Moon −12.7 mag [1] Venus −4.92 mag; Jupiter −2.94 mag; Mars −2.94 mag; Mercury −2.48 mag; Saturn −0.55 mag [2]
Fifth brightest star in the night sky. [72] Altair (α Aquilae) 2.01 × 1.57 [105] Twelfth brightest star in the night sky. Sirius (α Canis Majoris A) 1.713 [106] AD The brightest star in the night sky. Rigil Kentaurus (α Centauri A) 1.2175 [107] AD Third brightest star in the night sky. Sun: 1: The largest object in the Solar System.
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 ...
The closest encounter to the Sun so far predicted is the low-mass orange dwarf star Gliese 710 / HIP 89825 with roughly 60% the mass of the Sun. [4] It is currently predicted to pass 0.1696 ± 0.0065 ly (10 635 ± 500 au) from the Sun in 1.290 ± 0.04 million years from the present, close enough to significantly disturb the Solar System's Oort ...
Some scholars believe the Heavenly Stems, and the associated ten-day week, are connected to a story from Chinese mythology where ten suns appeared in the sky, whose order comprised a ten-day cycle (旬; xún); the Heavenly Stems are conjectured to be the names for each of these ten suns. [2]
Two bright yellow “suns” seemingly appeared in the sky over southwestern China, baffling locals. A cyclist from Chengdu, Sichuan province, recorded footage of the puzzling sight on Tuesday 18 ...
2.10 [7] Gamma Andromedae: Quadruple star system 2.11 2.0 Beta Gruis: Star 2.12 Algol: Triple star system Maximum brightness 2.14 2.115 Denebola: Star 2.17 Gamma Centauri: Binary star system 2.21 2.14 Lambda Velorum: Star 2.23 Gamma Cygni: Star Suspected variable star 2.23 Alpha Cassiopeiae: Star 2.230 Gamma Draconis: Star 2.24 2.21 Alpha ...