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HD 2039 is a yellow dwarf or yellow subgiant star in the constellation Phoenix. The star is not visible to the naked eye and lies approximately 330 light years away […]

GD 358 is a variable white dwarf star of the DBV type. Like other pulsating white dwarfs its variability arises from non-radial gravity wave pulsations within itself. GD 358 was […]

Asteroid 14654 Rajivgupta (provisionally 1998 YV16) is named for amateur astronomer and former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Dr. Rajiv Gupta. It is a main-belt asteroid discovered […]

Asteroid 14698 Scottyoung is named for astronomy educator Scott D. Young of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. It was discovered by the Spacewatch program.

Iota Draconis b was discovered in 2002 during a radial velocity study of K-class giant stars and was the first planet discovered orbiting a giant star. It is in an […]

PG 1159-035 is the prototypical PG 1159 star after which the class of PG 1159 stars was named. It was discovered in the Palomar-Green survey of ultraviolet-excess stellar objects and […]

79 Ceti b (also known as HD 16141 b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting its star every 75 days. With HD 46375 b on March 29 2000 it was the […]

1104 Syringa (1928 XA) is a Main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl in Heidelberg Germany on December 9 1928. It was named after […]

Ross 548 is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV type. It was found to be variable in 1970; in 1972 it was given the variable star designation ZZ […]

15112 Arlenewolfe (2000 CY94) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on February 8 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro New Mexico.It that was named in honor […]