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  2. Star - Wikipedia

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    Together with the radial velocity, the total velocity can be calculated. Stars with high rates of proper motion are likely to be relatively close to the Sun, making them good candidates for parallax measurements. [145] When both rates of movement are known, the space velocity of the star relative to the Sun or the galaxy can be computed. Among ...

  3. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The final fate of the star depends on its mass, with stars of mass greater than about eight times the Sun becoming core collapse supernovae; [102] while smaller stars blow off their outer layers and leave behind the inert core in the form of a white dwarf. The ejection of the outer layers forms a planetary nebula. [103]

  4. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. NASA discovers the 'loneliest' star in the universe - AOL

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    No, actually -- even NASA is calling this star the "loneliest" in the universe. "The unusual object, called CX330, was first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009," according to a NASA news ...

  6. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    [f] [154] [155] Filling the space between the stars is a disk of gas and dust called the interstellar medium. This disk has at least a comparable extent in radius to the stars, [156] whereas the thickness of the gas layer ranges from hundreds of light-years for the colder gas to thousands of light-years for warmer gas. [157] [158]

  7. Stellar population - Wikipedia

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    The oldest stars observed thus far, [10] known as population II, have very low metallicities; [16] [6] as subsequent generations of stars were born, they became more metal-enriched, as the gaseous clouds from which they formed received the metal-rich dust manufactured by previous generations of stars from population III.

  8. Night sky - Wikipedia

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    Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...

  9. Puppis - Wikipedia

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    NGC 2451 is a very bright open cluster containing the star c Puppis, and the near NGC 2477 is a good target for small telescopes. The star Pi Puppis is the main component of a bright group of stars known as Collinder 135. M46 is a circular open cluster with an overall magnitude of 6.1 at a distance of approximately 5400 light-years from Earth.

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