List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1958

SWEEPS-10 is as of June 2007 the planet candidate with the shortest orbital period yet found. The planet orbits the star SWEEPS J175902.00−291323.7 located in the Galactic bulge at a […]

HD 164922 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting around orange dwarf star HD 164922 located in Hercules constellation at a distance of 71.5 light years from Earth. Its inclination is […]

TrES-3b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03089-00929. It has an orbital period of just 31 hours and is undergoing orbital decay due to tidal effects. It has […]

HD 70642 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 70642 at 3.23 AU distance and takes 5.66 years to revolve. This planet may have systems of moons like […]

HD 70642 is a yellow dwarf star in the constellation of Puppis located 92 light years away. This star has about the same mass and radius as the Sun is […]

NGC 3344 is a relatively isolated barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away in the constellation Leo Minor. This galaxy belongs to the group known as the Leo […]

WD 0346+246 is a white dwarf. It was discovered in 1997 when examination of photographs taken for a survey of brown dwarfs in the Pleiades revealed a faint star with […]

GRW +70 8247 is a white dwarf located about 43 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco. With a magnitude of about 13 it is visible only through a […]

Z Andromedae is a symbiotic variable star with an hourglass-shaped nebula (like the Homonculus Nebula or Supernova 1987A). It is the prototype for symbiotic variables which are a subset of […]

HE 1523-0901 is the designation given to a red giant star in the Milky Way galaxy approximately 7500 light years from Earth. It is thought to be a second generation […]