List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 692

HU Aquarii (abbreviated HU Aqr) is an eclipsing binary system approximately 570 light-years away from Sun forming a cataclysmic variable of AM Herculis-type. The two stars orbit each other every […]

4443 Paulet (1985 RD4) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 10 1985 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.It was named after the Peruvian scientist Pedro Paulet.

Z Chamaeleontis (abbreviated Z Cha) is an dwarf nova variable star system approximately 316 light-years away from Sun where two stars orbit each other every 1.78 hours. The system comprises […]

OY Carinae (abbreviated OY Car) is an eclipsing binary system approximately 277 light-years away from Sun classed as cataclysmic variable. The system comprises an eclipsing white dwarf and red dwarf […]

QS Virginis (abbreviated QS Vir) is an eclipsing binary system approximately 157 light-years away from Sun forming a cataclysmic variable. The system comprises an eclipsing white dwarf and red dwarf […]

11433 Gemmafrisius (provisional designation: 3474 T-3) is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory […]

4436 Ortizmoreno is an outer main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Evan Barr at the Lowell Observatory at Anderson Mesa near Flagstaff Arizona on March 9 1983.

45 Herculis is a main sequence ACV star in the constellation Hercules. The Flamsteed designation for this star comes from the publication Historia Coelestis Britannica by John Flamsteed. It is […]

2009 VA is an asteroid that came within 14000 kilometres (8700 mi) of Earth on November 6 2009 making it the 3rd closest non-impacting approach of a cataloged asteroid. With […]

NGC 7459 is a twin Spiral galaxy of magnitude +15.2 located within the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by Lewis Swift in 1886 with a 16 inch refractor. The galactic […]