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  2. List of brightest stars - Wikipedia

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    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:

  3. Star system - Wikipedia

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    A multiple star system consists of two or more stars that appear from Earth to be close to one another in the sky. [dubious – discuss] This may result from the stars actually being physically close and gravitationally bound to each other, in which case it is a physical multiple star, or this closeness may be merely apparent, in which case it is an optical multiple star [a] Physical multiple ...

  4. Binary star - Wikipedia

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    The well-known binary star Sirius, seen here in a Hubble photograph from 2005, with Sirius A in the center, and white dwarf, Sirius B, to the left bottom from it. A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.

  5. Gamma Centauri - Wikipedia

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    Gamma Centauri, Latinized from γ Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus.It has the proper name Muhlifain, [10] not to be confused with Muliphein, which is γ Canis Majoris; both names derive from the same Arabic root.

  6. Cepheid variable - Wikipedia

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    RS Puppis, one of the brightest known Cepheid variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy (Hubble Space Telescope)A Cepheid variable (/ ˈ s ɛ f i. ɪ d, ˈ s iː f i-/) is a type of variable star that pulsates radially, varying in both diameter and temperature.

  7. Hertzsprung–Russell diagram - Wikipedia

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    An observational Hertzsprung–Russell diagram with 22,000 stars plotted from the Hipparcos Catalogue and 1,000 from the Gliese Catalogue of nearby stars. Stars tend to fall only into certain regions of the diagram.

  8. The Master Algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The book outlines five approaches of machine learning: inductive reasoning, connectionism, evolutionary computation, Bayes' theorem and analogical modelling.The author explains these tribes to the reader by referring to more understandable processes of logic, connections made in the brain, natural selection, probability and similarity judgments.

  9. Arduino Nano - Wikipedia

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    The Arduino Nano is an open-source breadboard-friendly microcontroller board based on the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller (MCU) and developed by Arduino.cc and initially released in 2008. It offers the same connectivity and specs of the Arduino Uno board in a smaller form factor.