List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2223

Gliese 623 is a dim double star lying 26.3 light years from Earth in constellation Hercules. It was photographed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Faint Object Camera in 1994. […]

99942 Apophis (/əˈpɒfɪs/ previously known by its provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a […]

Lambda Scorpii (λ Sco λ Scorpii) is a blue star and the second brightest star system in the constellation Scorpius and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. […]

1604 Tombaugh is an asteroid discovered by Carl Otto Lampland on March 24 1931 at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. It was named after Clyde W. Tombaugh who discovered […]

PSR J2144-3933 is a pulsar about 180 parsecs (5.5 Em) from Earth. It was previously thought to have a period of 2.84 seconds but is now known to have a […]

Beta Canis Majoris (β CMa β Canis Majoris) is a star in the southern constellation of Canis Major the ‘greater dog’ and is located at a distance of about 500 […]

Canopus (/kəˈnoʊpəs/; α Car α Carinae Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and the second brightest star in the night-time sky after Sirius. Canopus’s […]

Alpha Comae Berenices (Alpha Com α Com α Comae Berenices) is a star in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). Although it has the Bayer designation alpha at magnitude 4.32 […]

This article is about the star named Markab for alternate meanings see Markab (disambiguation).Alpha Pegasi (α Peg α Pegasi) is the third brightest star in the constellation Pegasus and one […]

Delta Virginis (δ Vir δ Virginis) is a star in the zodiac constellation of Virgo. It has the traditional name Auva. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.4 this star […]