List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2185

Gravity darkening also referred to as Gravity Brightening is an astronomical phenomenon where a star rotates so rapidly that it has a detectably oblate spheroid shape such as in Regulus […]

9496 Ockels is an asteroid named after Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels.

9495 Eminescu is an asteroid named after Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu.It was discovered in 1971 at the Palomar Observatory. It circles the Sun in 1180.13 days (3.23 years) at an […]

9494 Donici is an asteroid named after Romanian astronomer Nicolae Donici.

9493 Enescu is an asteroid named for the Romanian musician George Enescu.

25893 Sugihara is an asteroid (also known as a minor planetary body) discovered by William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Beaver observatory. The asteroid was discovered November 19 2000 […]

Not to be confused with the star Aldebaran. For the fictional planet in the Star Wars universe see Alderaan.Alderaan and similar spellings (e.g. Alderahan) is a disused name for the […]

4932 Texstapa (1984 EA1) is an asteroid that was discovered on March 9 1984 by Brian A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It was named […]

Cor Caroli (α CVn α Canum Venaticorum Alpha Canum Venaticorum) is the brightest star in the northern constellation Canes Venatici. It is a binary star consisting of two distantly separated […]

Eta Virginis (η Vir η Virginis) is a multiple star system in the zodiac constellation of Virgo. It has the traditional name Zaniah /zəˈnaɪ.ə/. From parallax measurements the distance to […]