List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2

2012 VP113 also written 2012 VP113 is a planetoid in the outer reaches of the Solar System. It is the object with the largest known perihelion (closest approach to the […]

FS Canis Majoris (FS CMa) also known as HD 45677 or MWC 142 is a B-type star in the constellation of Canis Major. It has an apparent visual magnitude of […]

NGC 66 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Frank Muller in 1886 and is located in the Cetus constellation.

RX J0720.4-3125 is a neutron star in the constellation Canis Major. It was discovered in 1997 in the ROSAT All-sky survey. Measurement of its parallax leads to an estimate of […]

Nu Leonis is a star in the constellation Leo. Its apparent magnitude is 5.26. Located around 153 parsecs (500 ly) distant it is a subgiant of spectral type B6IV a […]

HD 45184 is a 6th magnitude G-type main sequence star located approximately 71 light years away in the constellation Canis Major. It has a planet around 12 times as massive […]

Xi Eridani is a star in the constellation Eridanus. Its apparent magnitude is 5.17. Located around 64.10 parsecs (209.1 ly) distant it is a blue-white main-sequence star of spectral type […]

DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b (or alias 2MASS J08230313-4912012 b) is an exoplanet (extrasolar planet) / brown dwarf orbiting DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 an L1.5-type brown dwarf. As of March 2014 DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b […]

2002 RN109 is a minor planet with the second-highest orbital eccentricity of any known minor planet. It also has the sixth-largest heliocentric semi-major axis and aphelion of all known minor […]

(386454) 2008 XM is an asteroid with a highly eccentric orbit that crosses the orbits of Mercury Venus Earth and Mars. It has the third-smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid […]