List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 480

Kepler-10 formerly known as KOI-72 is a sunlike star in constellation Draco that lies 173 parsecs (564 light years) away from the Earth. Kepler-10 was targeted by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft […]

HD 25171 is a star in the southern constellation of Reticulum the reticle. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.79 this star is too faint to be viewed with the […]

UGC 3378 is a galaxy with a star that was observed to go supernova in January 2011. The distance to our Solar system is about 248800000 light years.

2004 XA192 is a Kuiper-belt object with a diameter of 339+120−95 km. It has an absolute magnitude of 4.11. It was discovered on 12 December 2004 at Palomar Observatory. It […]

HD 36960 is a B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Orion. At an apparent magnitude of +4.78 it is visible to the naked eye in many areas though in most […]

1999 CD158 also written as 1999 CD158 is a resonant trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It has an orbital resonance of 4:7 with Neptune which means that […]

238P/Read (P/2005 U1) is a main-belt comet discovered on 2005 October 24 by M. T. Read using the Spacewatch 36 inch telescope on Kitt Peak. It has an orbit within […]

HD 110432 is a Be star in the constellation Crux behind the southern Coalsack Nebula. It has a stellar classification of B1IVe which means it is asubgiant star of class […]

A lead star is a low-metallicity star with an overabundance of lead and bismuth as compared to other products of the S-process.

2010 RE64 also written as 2010 RE64 is a scattered disc object with an absolute magnitude of 4.3. Mike Brown’s website lists it as a highly likely dwarf planet.