List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2235

S Doradus is one of the brightest stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud a satellite of the Milky Way. A hypergiant it is one of the most luminous stars known […]

366 Vincentina is a fairly large main belt asteroid.Vincentina was discovered on March 21 1893 by Auguste Charlois and named after Vincenzo Cerulli an Italian astronomer.

Pallene (/pəˈliːniː/ pə-LEE-nee; Greek: Παλλήνη) is a very small natural satellite of Saturn. It is one of three small moons known as the Alkyonides that lie between the orbits of […]

Methone is a very small natural satellite of Saturn lying between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus.

HD 209458 is an 8th magnitude star in the constellation Pegasus. It is very similar to our Sun and it is classified as a yellow dwarf (spectral class G0 V). […]

Alnitak (Arabic: النطاق an-niṭāq‎) is a triple star some 736 light years distant in the constellation Orion. It is part of Orion’s Belt along with Alnilam and Mintaka and has […]

201 Penelope is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on August 7 1879 in Pola. The asteroid is named after Penelope the wife […]

3806 Tremaine is a small asteroid of the Alinda family. It was first sighted on 14 October 1975 [1] and given the provisional designation 1975 TY5. Two more sightings occurred […]

Tau Boötis (τ Boo τ Boötis) is a yellow-white dwarf approximately 51 light-years away in the constellation of Boötes. The system is also a binary star system with the secondary […]

(6178) 1986 DA is a 2.3-kilometre-diameter M-type Mars-crosser and near-Earth asteroid notable for being significantly more radar-reflective than other asteroids. It is an Amor asteroid which means it approaches the […]