List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2006

Iota Persei (Iota Per ι Persei ι Per) is a main sequence dwarf star in the constellation Perseus. It is somewhat larger and greater in mass than the Sun and […]

Alpha Mensae is the brightest star in the constellation Mensa. At a magnitude of 5.09 it is the dimmest lucida (a constellation’s brightest star) in the sky. It is a […]

61 Ursae Majoris (61 UMa) is an orange-yellow G8 main-sequence star in the constellation Ursa Major. This star is somewhat smaller and fainter than the Sun and can just barely […]

HD 50281 (also known as Gliese 250) is a binary star system with a relatively high proper motion. The primary star is a main sequence orange dwarf star while the […]

1143 Odysseus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid that orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system in the Greek Camp of trojan asteroids. It was named after the […]

2300 Stebbins is the name of an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program it was named after Joel Stebbins.

BG Geminorum is long period eclipsing binary star system which contains a K0 I secondary star in orbit around a primary star. The primary star has a mass at least […]

OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb is an extrasolar planet located approximately 2700 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius orbiting the star OGLE-2005-BLG-169L. This planet was discovered by the OGLE project using the gravitational […]

9619 Terrygilliam is an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

NGC 1042 is a spiral galaxy in the ConstellationCetus.