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Arcturus is the brightest star in the constellation of Boötes. With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere and the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, [14] after Sirius (−1.46 apparent magnitude), Canopus (−0.72) and α Centauri (combined
Spica is the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo (lower left). As one of the nearest massive binary star systems to the Sun, Spica has been the subject of many observational studies. [17] Spica is believed to be the star that gave Hipparchus the data that led him to discover the precession of the equinoxes. [18]
Bright Star is a musical written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46 with flashbacks to 1923. . The musical is inspired by their Grammy-winning collaboration on the 2013 bluegrass album Love Has Come for You [1] and, in turn, the folk tale of the Iron Mountain B
Canopus is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and the second-brightest star in the night sky. It is also designated α Carinae, which is romanized (transliterated) to Alpha Carinae. With a visual apparent magnitude of −0.74, it is outshone only by Sirius.
Three of these stars are in Crux making it the most densely populated as to those stars (this being 3.26% of these 92 stars, and in turn being 19.2 times more than the expected 0.17% that would result on a homogenous distribution of all bright stars and a randomised drawing of all 88 constellations, given its area, 0.17% of the sky).
At magnitude 1.5, it is the second-brightest star in Canis Major and the 23rd-brightest star in the sky. It is a blue-white supergiant of spectral type B2Iab, around 404 light-years from Earth. [39] This star is one of the brightest known extreme ultraviolet sources in the sky. [40] It is a binary star; the secondary is of magnitude 7.4.
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The bright globular cluster Messier 13 lies along the western segment, between Zeta and Eta. The curve of stars at the front end of the Lion from Epsilon (ε Leo) to Regulus (α Leo), looking much like a mirror-image question mark, has long been known as the Sickle. [5] The brighter stars of Sagittarius form the Teapot. [15]