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N6946-BH1 is a disappearing supergiant star and failed supernova candidate formerly seen in the galaxy NGC 6946, on the northern border of the constellation of Cygnus.The star, either a red supergiant [1] or a yellow hypergiant, [3] was 25 times the mass of the Sun, and was 20 million light years distant from Earth.
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the surface of the Earth without relying solely on estimated positional calculations, commonly known as dead reckoning.
A star is a massive luminous spheroid astronomical object made of plasma that is held together by its own gravity.Stars exhibit great diversity in their properties (such as mass, volume, velocity, stage in stellar evolution, and distance from Earth) and some of the outliers are so disproportionate in comparison with the general population that they are considered extreme.
It contains two stars: a dead star, also known as a “white dwarf,” closely orbited by a red giant. Red giants are dying stars that are running out of hydrogen fuel in their cores; the sun in ...
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V762 Cassiopeiae is a red supergiant and a variable star located about 2,500 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation. Its apparent magnitude vary between 5.82 and 5.95, which makes it faintly visible to the naked eye under dark skies. It is a relatively cool star with an average surface temperature of 3,869 K.
The most luminous known star. Quyllur: 2.1878 [5] 5,540 2023 First red supergiant at cosmological distances. Mothra: 2.091 [6] 5,400 2023 A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant or yellow hypergiant and a Blue supergiant. MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1: 1.49 [7] 4,410 2018 The most distant known star prior to the discovery of Earendel. Warhol 0.94 ...
With the visible stars revolve stones which are invisible, and for that reason nameless. They often fall on the ground and are extinguished, like the stone star that came down on fire at Aegospotami. showing that the Greeks had a much earlier idea that meteorites are rocks from space. Below is a list of eight confirmed falls pre-1600 AD.