List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 488

HD 49933 (HR 2530) is a Sun-like star in the equatorial constellation of Monoceros the unicorn. The HD designation indicates the identifier of the star found in the Henry Draper […]

Kepler-9 is a sunlike star in the constellation Lyra. Its planetary system discovered by the Kepler Mission in 2010 was the first detected with the transit method found to contain […]

ISOHDFS 27 is the most massive spiral galaxy known so far. It is approximately 6 billion light years from Earth. It has a mass of 1.04×1012 solar masses (M☉) about […]

TN J0924-2201 is the most distant radio galaxy known to date. It was discovered by Wil van Breugel in 1999.

HD 10180 is a Sun-like star in the southern constellation Hydrus that is notable for its large planetary system. Since its discovery at least seven planets and possibly as many […]

6 Persei is a star in the constellation Andromeda. Its apparent magnitude is 5.38.

V Cephei is a white main sequence star in the constellation Cepheus. It only varies slightly by 0.03 of a magnitude. It was suspected of being variable by American astronomer […]

132719 Lambey (provisional designation: 2002 PF) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered at the Pises Observatory in the Cévennes National Park of southern France on August 1 2002. […]

HD 5980 is the brightest star in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and is located in NGC 346. It has three components all amongst the most luminous stars known: an […]

Wray 17-96 is a very luminous star in the Scorpius constellation about 15000 light-years (4.6 kpc) away. Likely a luminous blue variable (LBV) it has an absolute bolometric magnitude of […]