List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2278

Lalande 21185 is a red dwarf in the constellation of Ursa Major. Although relatively close by it is only magnitude 7 in visible light and thus is too dim to […]

Wolf 359 is a red dwarf that is located in the constellation Leo near the ecliptic. At a distance of approximately 7.8 light years from the Earth it has an […]

The asteroid 4593 Reipurth was discovered on March 16 1980 by Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist. It was named in honor of Bo Reipurth then a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory […]

Red supergiants (RSGs) are supergiant stars (luminosity class I) of spectral type K or M. They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of volume although they are […]

Saiph (κ Orionis 53 Orionis) is the sixth-brightest star in the constellation of Orion. Of the four bright stars that compose Orion’s main quadrangle it is the star at the […]

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598 and is […]

NGC 6240 is a well-studied nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) in the constellation Ophiuchus. The galaxy is the remnant of a merger between two smaller galaxies. The collision between the […]

There is also an asteroid called 53 Kalypso.Calypso (/kəˈlɪpsoʊ/ kə-LIP-soh; Greek: Καλυψώ) is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 from ground-based observations by Dan Pascu P. Kenneth […]

Teegarden’s Star (SO J025300.5+165258 2MASS J02530084+1652532 LSPM J0253+1652) is an M-type brown dwarf in the constellation Aries located about 12 light years from the Solar System. Despite its proximity to […]

141 Lumen is a dark (C-type) large rocky asteroid 130 km in diameter orbiting in the main belt near the Eunomia family of asteroids. [citation needed] Yet NASA continues to […]