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These 'Diagonal star tables' or star charts are also known as 'diagonal star clocks'. In the past they have also been known as 'star calendars', or 'decanal clocks'. [10] These star charts featuring the paintings of Egyptian deities, decans, constellations, and star observations are also found on the ceilings of tombs and temples.
Apep is a triple star system containing a Wolf–Rayet binary and a hot supergiant, located in the constellation of Norma.Named after the serpent deity from Egyptian mythology, the star system is surrounded by a vast complex of stellar wind and cosmic dust thrown into space by the high rotation speed of the binary's primary star and formed into a "pinwheel" shape by the secondary star's influence.
This week, explore a space rock named for the Egyptian god of chaos, meet an electric blue tarantula, uncover a 2,300-year-old tomb, and more.
An alternative name found in European sources, Toliman, is an approximation of the Arabic الظليمان aẓ-Ẓalīmān (in older transcription, aṭ-Ṭhalīmān), meaning 'the (two male) Ostriches', an appellation Zakariya al-Qazwini had applied to the pair of stars Lambda and Mu Sagittarii; it was often not clear on old star maps which ...
Closest star to the Sun with exactly six [29] exoplanets, and closest K-type main sequence star to the Sun with a multiplanetary system. One of the oldest stars with a multiplanetary system, although it is still more metal-rich than the Sun. None of the known planets is in the habitable zone. [30] 61 Virginis: Virgo: 13 h 18 m 24.31 s: −18 ...
[1] [13] However, more recent models of its stellar evolution have suggested revision of the star's age to 13.7 billion years [14] or 12 billion years. [5] Dubbed the "Methuselah Star" by the popular press due to its age, [15] [16] the star must have formed soon after the Big Bang [1] and is one of the oldest stars known as of 2021. [5]
Alpha Librae, called Zubenelgenubi, is a multiple star system divisible into two stars when seen through binoculars, The primary (Alpha 2 Librae) is a blue-white star of magnitude 2.7 and the secondary (Alpha 1 Librae) is a white star of magnitude 5.2 and spectral type F3V that is 74.9 ± 0.7 light-years from Earth. Its traditional name means ...
Data collected from both the Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope were combined to depict NGC 602, a star cluster located on the outskirts of a not-so-distant galaxy some ...