List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1946

1105 Fragaria (1929 AB) is Main-belt asteroid discovered on January 1 1929 by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl in Heidelberg Germany. It was named after Fragaria the genus […]

ChaHα8 (also written ChaHa8 when Greek letters are unavailable) is a brown dwarf star 522 light years from Earth discovered in 2007. It was found to have a companion object […]

7472 Kumakiri is a main belt asteroid discovered February 1992 by Makio Akiyama and Toshimasa Furuta.

In astronomy Calvera is the nickname of an X-ray source known as 1RXS J141256.0+792204in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (RASS/BSC). It lies in the constellation Ursa Minor and […]

Delta Doradus δ Doradus is a faint star in the Dorado constellation that has the distinction of being the Moon’s south pole star. It is better aligned than Earth’s Polaris […]

OGLE-TR-113 is a dim distant magnitude 16 binary star in the star fields of the constellation Carina. Because of its distance of about 1800 light years and location in a […]

GD 362 is a white dwarf approximately 150 light years from Earth. In 2004 spectroscopic observations showed that it had a relatively high concentration of metals in its atmosphere. Since […]

HD 68988 b is a hot jupiter located approximately 192 light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major orbiting the star HD 68988 in a moderately eccentric orbit.

3763 Qianxuesen (provisional designation: 1980 TA6) is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing China on October 14 1980. It is named […]

11063 Poynting (1991 VC6) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.The asteroid owes its name to the English physicist […]