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Cancer is one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere. Its name is Latin for crab and it is commonly represented as one. Cancer is a medium-size constellation with an area of 506 square degrees and its stars are rather faint, its brightest star Beta Cancri having an apparent magnitude of 3.5.
Theta Cancri, Latinised from θ Cancri, is a multiple star [7] [3] system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer.It is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.32. [2]
Eta Cancri, Latinized from η Cancri, is a single, [8] orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is a faint star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.34. [2] The annual parallax shift of 10.93 [1] mas as seen from Earth yields a distance estimate of 155 light years from the Sun.
Tau Cancri (τ Cancri) is a solitary, [3] yellow-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.42, [2] it is faintly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 11.92 mas as seen from Earth, [1] it is located around 274 light-years from the Sun.
Xi Cancri (ξ Cancri, abbreviated Xi Cnc, ξ Cnc) is a spectroscopic binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.15. [2] Based upon parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, [1] it is roughly 370 light-years distant from the Sun.
Lambda Cancri (λ Cancri, abbreviated Lambda Cnc, λ Cnc) is a blue-white-hued spectroscopic binary star [2] in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. With a combined apparent visual magnitude of +5.93, it is faintly visible to the naked eye. [2] Based upon parallax measurements obtained during the Gaia mission, it is about 550 light-years distant ...
66 Cancri is a binary star [9] system near the northern border of the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located 474 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.87. [2] The pair are moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −13 ...
79 Cancri is a star in the constellation Cancer, located 400 light years from the Sun. [1] It is just visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.04. [2] This object is gradually moving slower to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −3.2 km/s. [1]