Capella, the Glossary
Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga.[1]
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203 relations: Aegis, Aerobee, Aitken Double Star Catalogue, Akkadian language, Alaska, Aldebaran, Almagest, Amalthea (mythology), Apparent magnitude, Arctic Anthropology, Arcturus, Argentina, Asterism (astronomy), Astrology, Astronomical spectroscopy, Astronomical unit, Asymptotic giant branch, Auriga, Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Balts, Barramundi, Bayer designation, Bedouin, Behenian fixed star, Beta Aurigae, Beta Tauri, Betelgeuse, Binary star, Bolometric correction, Brahma, Bright Star Catalogue, Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, Canada, Canopus, Capella (crater), Carbon, Castor (star), Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars, Celestial pole, Celestial sphere, Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Chile, Chinese astronomy, Chromosphere, Circumpolar star, Color index, Constellation, Contiguous United States, Convection zone, ... Expand index (153 more) »
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Aegis
The aegis (αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon.
Aerobee
The Aerobee rocket was one of the United States' most produced and productive sounding rockets.
Aitken Double Star Catalogue
The Aitken Double Star Catalogue, or ADS, is a star catalogue of double stars.
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Akkadian language
Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Aldebaran
Aldebaran (lit) is a star located in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. Capella and Aldebaran are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, k-type giants and stars with proper names.
Almagest
The Almagest is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy in Koine Greek.
Amalthea (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Ancient Greek) is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus.
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Apparent magnitude
Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object.
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Arctic Anthropology
Arctic Anthropology is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the archaeology, ethnology, and physical anthropology of arctic and subarctic peoples.
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Arcturus
|- bgcolor. Capella and Arcturus are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and k-type giants.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Asterism (astronomy)
An asterism is an observed pattern or group of stars in the sky.
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Astrology
Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.
Astronomical spectroscopy
Astronomical spectroscopy is the study of astronomy using the techniques of spectroscopy to measure the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray, infrared and radio waves that radiate from stars and other celestial objects.
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Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.
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Asymptotic giant branch
The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) is a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram populated by evolved cool luminous stars.
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Auriga
Auriga is a constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere.
Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Australian Aboriginal astronomy has been passed down orally, through ceremonies, and in their artwork of many kinds.
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Balts
The Balts or Baltic peoples (baltai, balti) are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages.
Barramundi
The barramundi (Lates calcarifer), Asian sea bass, or giant sea perch (also known as dangri or apahap) is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Perciformes.
Bayer designation
A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.
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Bedouin
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).
Behenian fixed star
The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and the Arab world.
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Beta Aurigae
Beta Aurigae (Latinized from β Aurigae, abbreviated Beta Aur, β Aur), officially named Menkalinan, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Auriga. Capella and Beta Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, m-type main-sequence stars and stars with proper names.
Beta Tauri
Beta Tauri is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Taurus. Capella and Beta Tauri are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. Capella and Betelgeuse are bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Binary star
A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.
Bolometric correction
In astronomy, the bolometric correction is the correction made to the absolute magnitude of an object in order to convert its visible magnitude to its bolometric magnitude.
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Brahma
Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.
Bright Star Catalogue
The Bright Star Catalogue, also known as the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars, Yale Bright Star Catalogue, or just YBS, is a star catalogue that lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth. Capella and bright Star Catalogue are bright Star Catalogue objects.
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Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
COAST, the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, is a multi-element optical astronomical interferometer with baselines of up to 100 metres, which uses aperture synthesis to observe stars with angular resolution as high as one thousandth of one arcsecond (producing much higher resolution images than individual telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope).
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canopus
Canopus is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and the second-brightest star in the night sky. Capella and Canopus are bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Capella (crater)
Capella is a lunar impact crater in diameter that lies to the north of the Mare Nectaris, in a rugged region with many small impact craters.
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Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
Castor (star)
Castor is the second-brightest object in the zodiac constellation of Gemini. Capella and Castor (star) are bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, m-type main-sequence stars, multiple star systems and stars with proper names.
Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars
The Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars, or CCDM, is an astrometric star catalogue of double and multiple stars.
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Celestial pole
The north and south celestial poles are the two points in the sky where Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere.
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Celestial sphere
In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth.
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Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg
The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS; English translation: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre) is a data centre which collects and distributes astronomical information.
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
Chinese astronomy
Astronomy in China has a long history stretching from the Shang dynasty, being refined over a period of more than 3,000 years.
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Chromosphere
A chromosphere ("sphere of color") is the second layer of a star's atmosphere, located above the photosphere and below the solar transition region and corona.
Circumpolar star
A circumpolar star is a star that, as viewed from a given latitude on Earth, never sets below the horizon due to its apparent proximity to one of the celestial poles.
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Color index
In astronomy, the color index is a simple numerical expression that determines the color of an object, which in the case of a star gives its temperature.
Constellation
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.
Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America.
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Convection zone
A convection zone, convective zone or convective region of a star is a layer which is unstable due to convection.
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Cornucopia
In classical antiquity, the cornucopia, from Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts.
Declination
In astronomy, declination (abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is one of the two angles that locate a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, the other being hour angle.
Doppler broadening
In atomic physics, Doppler broadening is broadening of spectral lines due to the Doppler effect caused by a distribution of velocities of atoms or molecules.
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Doppler effect
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave.
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Double star
In observational astronomy, a double star or visual double is a pair of stars that appear close to each other as viewed from Earth, especially with the aid of optical telescopes.
Dynamical parallax
In astronomy, the distance to a visual binary star may be estimated from the masses of its two components, the size of their orbit, and the period of their orbit about one another.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer.
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Effective temperature
The effective temperature of a body such as a star or planet is the temperature of a black body that would emit the same total amount of electromagnetic radiation.
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Epoch (astronomy)
In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity.
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Epsilon Aurigae
Epsilon Aurigae (ε Aurigae, abbreviated Epsilon Aur, ε Aur) is a multiple star system in the northern constellation of Auriga, the charioteer. Capella and Epsilon Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
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Eta Aurigae
Eta Aurigae (η Aurigae, abbreviated Eta Aur, η Aur), officially named Haedus, is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. Capella and Eta Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
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First-magnitude star
First-magnitude stars are the brightest stars in the night sky, with apparent magnitudes lower (i.e. brighter) than +1.50.
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Five Chariots
Five Chariots (五車, pinyin: Wǔ Ju) is a Chinese constellation equivalent to Auriga, minus Delta Aurigae.
Flamsteed designation
A Flamsteed designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the modern constellations visible from southern England.
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Gaia (spacecraft)
Gaia is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 2013 and expected to operate until 2025.
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General Catalogue of Variable Stars
The General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) is a list of variable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper (born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper,; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor.
Giant star
A giant star has a substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main-sequence (or dwarf) star of the same surface temperature.
Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars
The Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars (English) is a star catalogue listing stars located within 25 parsecs (82 ly) of the Sun.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Guide Star Catalog
The Guide Star Catalog (GSC), also known as the Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog (HSTGC), is a star catalog compiled to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targeting off-axis stars.
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Gwichʼin
The Gwichʼin (or Kutchin or Loucheux) are an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native people.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer.
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Heliacal rising
The heliacal rising of a star or a planet occurs annually when it first becomes visible above the eastern horizon at dawn just before sunrise (thus becoming "the morning star") after a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
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Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
Hertzsprung gap
The Hertzsprung gap is a feature of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram for a star cluster.
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Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (abbreviated as H–R diagram, HR diagram or HRD) is a scatter plot of stars showing the relationship between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities and their stellar classifications or effective temperatures.
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High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1
HEAO-1 was an X-ray telescope launched in 1977.
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Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.
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Hipparcos
Hipparcos was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993.
Historical brightest stars
The Solar System and all of the visible stars are in different orbits about the core of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Honour
Honour (Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.
Hugh Newall
Hugh Frank Newall, FRS FRAS (21 June 1857 – 22 February 1944) was a British astrophysicist.
Hyades (star cluster)
The Hyades (Greek Ὑάδες, also known as Caldwell 41, Collinder 50, or Melotte 25) is the nearest open cluster and one of the best-studied star clusters.
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Hyades Stream
The Hyades Stream (or Hyades moving group) is a large collection of scattered stars that also share a similar trajectory with the Hyades Cluster.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
IAU Working Group on Star Names
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) established a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) in May 2016 to catalog and standardize proper names for stars for the international astronomical community.
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Infrared
Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.
Interferometry
Interferometry is a technique which uses the interference of superimposed waves to extract information.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.
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International Celestial Reference System and its realizations
The International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) is the current standard celestial reference system adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
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Inuit astronomy
Inuit astronomy is centered around the Qilak, the Inuit name for the celestial sphere and the home for souls of departed people.
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Iota Aurigae
Iota Aurigae (ι Aurigae, abbreviated Iota Aur, ι Aur), officially named Hassaleh, is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. Capella and Iota Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah or Qabalah (קַבָּלָה|Qabbālā|reception, tradition) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism.
Ke Kā o Makaliʻi
Ke Kā o Makalii is a Hawaiian constellation consisting of five stars in a curving formation in the shape of a bailer surrounding the western constellation Orion, although not including any stars from it.
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Kelvin
The kelvin, symbol K, is the base unit of measurement for temperature in the International System of Units (SI).
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Latinisation of names
Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.
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Lick Observatory
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California.
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List of brightest stars
This is a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth.
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List of Chinese star names
Chinese star names (Chinese:, xīng míng) are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology.
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List of nearest bright stars
This list of nearest bright stars is a table of stars found within 15 parsecs (48.9 light-years) of the nearest star, the Sun, that have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter, which is approximately comparable to a listing of stars more luminous than a red dwarf.
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List of nearest giant stars
This is a list of the nearest giant stars (luminosity class III or II) to the Earth, located at a distance of up to.
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Luminosity
Luminosity is an absolute measure of radiated electromagnetic energy (light) per unit time, and is synonymous with the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting object.
Main sequence
In astronomy, the main sequence is a classification of stars which appear on plots of stellar color versus brightness as a continuous and distinctive band.
Marcus Manilius
Marcus Manilius originally hailing from Syria, was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.
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Mare Nectaris
Mare Nectaris (Latin nectaris, the "Sea of Nectar") is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon's surface) located south of Mare Tranquillitatis southwest of Mare Fecunditatis, on the near side of the Moon.
Mark III Stellar Interferometer
The Mark III Stellar Interferometer was a long-baseline optical astronomical interferometer, located at the Mount Wilson Observatory, California, United States.
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Mazda
, also known as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan.
Mazda Capella
The Mazda Capella, also known as the 626 in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia, is a mid-size car that was manufactured by Mazda from 1970 until 2002.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
In astronomy, metallicity is the abundance of elements present in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Minute and second of arc
A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol, is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree.
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Monte Albán
Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca (17.043° N, 96.767°W).
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in astronomy, astrophysics and related fields.
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Mount Wilson Observatory
The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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MUL.APIN
MUL.APIN is the conventional title given to a Babylonian compendium that deals with many diverse aspects of Babylonian astronomy and astrology.
Naked eye
Naked eye, also called bare eye or unaided eye, is the practice of engaging in visual perception unaided by a magnifying, light-collecting optical instrument, such as a telescope or microscope, or eye protection.
Natural abundance
In physics, natural abundance (NA) refers to the abundance of isotopes of a chemical element as naturally found on a planet.
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Negev
The Negev (hanNégev) or Negeb (an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.
Negev Bedouin
The Negev Bedouin (بدو النقب, Badū an-Naqab; הבדואים בנגב, HaBedu'im BaNegev) are traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab tribes (Bedouin), who until the later part of the 19th century would wander between Hijaz in the east and the Sinai Peninsula in the west. Today they live in the Negev region of Israel.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Night sky
The night sky is the nighttime appearance of celestial objects like stars, planets, and the Moon, which are visible in a clear sky between sunset and sunrise, when the Sun is below the horizon.
Northern celestial hemisphere
The northern celestial hemisphere, also called the Northern Sky, is the northern half of the celestial sphere; that is, it lies north of the celestial equator.
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Nymph
A nymph (νύμφη|nýmphē;; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore.
Oaxaca
Oaxaca (also,, from Huāxyacac), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States.
Olin J. Eggen
Olin Jeuck Eggen (July 9, 1919 – October 2, 1998) was an American-Australian astronomer.
Orion's Belt
Orion's Belt is an asterism in the constellation of Orion.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Parallax
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those two lines.
Pleiades
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, reflects an observed pattern formed by those stars, in an asterism of an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Polaris
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. Capella and Polaris are bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Pole star
A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the axis of rotation of an astronomical body; that is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles.
Pollux (star)
Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini. Capella and Pollux (star) are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects, k-type giants and stars with proper names.
Pre-Columbian era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
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Procyon
Procyon is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Minor and usually the eighth-brightest star in the night sky, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.34. Capella and Procyon are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
Proper motion
Proper motion is the astrometric measure of the observed changes in the apparent places of stars or other celestial objects in the sky, as seen from the center of mass of the Solar System, compared to the abstract background of the more distant stars.
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Quechuan languages
Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
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Ragnar Furuhjelm
Elis Ragnar Furuhjelm (12 October 1879 – 15 November 1944) was a Finnish astronomer and politician, born in Oulu.
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Red clump
The red clump is a clustering of red giants in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram at around 5,000 K and absolute magnitude (MV) +0.5, slightly hotter than most red-giant-branch stars of the same luminosity.
Red dwarf
A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence.
Red giant
A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses) in a late phase of stellar evolution.
Red-giant branch
The red-giant branch (RGB), sometimes called the first giant branch, is the portion of the giant branch before helium ignition occurs in the course of stellar evolution.
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Redshift
In physics, a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light).
Reprint
A reprint is a re-publication of material that has already been previously published.
Rigel
Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. Capella and Rigel are Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and multiple star systems.
Right ascension
Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol) is the angular distance of a particular point measured eastward along the celestial equator from the Sun at the March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point in question above the Earth.
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Robert Burnham Jr.
Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook.
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Roche lobe
In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star.
ROSAT
ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
RS Canum Venaticorum variable
An RS Canum Venaticorum variable is a type of variable star. Capella and RS Canum Venaticorum variable are rS Canum Venaticorum variables.
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Semi-major and semi-minor axes
In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely separated points of the perimeter.
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SIMBAD
SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) is an astronomical database of objects beyond the Solar System.
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.
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Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Capella and Sirius are astronomical X-ray sources, bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
Sky & Telescope
Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following.
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Solar luminosity
The solar luminosity is a unit of radiant flux (power emitted in the form of photons) conventionally used by astronomers to measure the luminosity of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects in terms of the output of the Sun.
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Solar mass
The solar mass is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately.
Solar radius
Solar radius is a unit of distance used to express the size of stars in astronomy relative to the Sun.
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario is a primary region of the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Speckle imaging
Speckle imaging comprises a range of high-resolution astronomical imaging techniques based on the analysis of large numbers of short exposures that freeze the variation of atmospheric turbulence.
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Spectral line
A spectral line is a weaker or stronger region in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum.
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.
SS Capella
SS Capella (T-AKR 293) is an ''Algol'' class vehicle cargo ship that is currently maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the Military Sealift Command's Ready Reserve Force (RRF).
Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.
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Star system
A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction.
Starspot
Starspots are stellar phenomena, so-named by analogy with sunspots.
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics.
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Stellar corona
A corona (coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere.
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Stellar evolution
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of its lifetime and how it can lead to the creation of a new star.
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Stellar rotation
Stellar rotation is the angular motion of a star about its axis.
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Subgiant
A subgiant is a star that is brighter than a normal main-sequence star of the same spectral class, but not as bright as giant stars.
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. Capella and Sun are stars with proper names.
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Theta Aurigae
Theta Aurigae (Latinized from θ Aurigae, abbreviated Theta Aur, θ Aur) is a binary star in the constellation of Auriga. Capella and Theta Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Tidal acceleration
Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon) and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth).
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Titans
In Greek mythology, the Titans (οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States Naval Observatory
The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense.
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Uranometria
Uranometria is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer.
V538 Aurigae
V538 Aurigae is a single star in the northern constellation of Auriga. Capella and V538 Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
Vega
Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. Capella and Vega are bright Star Catalogue objects, Gliese and GJ objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects and Hipparcos objects.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
Wardaman people
The Wardaman people are a small group of Aboriginal Australians living about South-West of Katherine, on Menngen Aboriginal Land Trust in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Washington Double Star Catalog
The Washington Double Star Catalog, or WDS, is a catalog of double stars, maintained at the United States Naval Observatory.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
Wilhelm Gliese
Wilhelm Gliese (English; 21 June 1915 – 12 June 1993) was a German astronomer who specialized in the study and cataloging of nearby stars.
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William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell (April 11, 1862 – June 14, 1938) was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930.
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X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
X-ray astronomy
X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X-ray observation and detection from astronomical objects. Capella and x-ray astronomy are astronomical X-ray sources.
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Zeta Aurigae
Zeta Aurigae, or ζ Aurigae, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Auriga. Capella and Zeta Aurigae are Auriga, bright Star Catalogue objects, Henry Draper Catalogue objects, Hipparcos objects and stars with proper names.
Zeus
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
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40th parallel north
The 40th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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44th parallel north
The 44th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 44 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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44th parallel south
The 44th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 44 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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See also
Hyades Stream
- 10 Ursae Majoris
- 2 Ursae Minoris
- 20 Cancri
- 23 Leonis Minoris
- 34 Pegasi
- 41 Aurigae
- 56 Cygni
- C3 Centauri
- Capella
- Gamma Cancri
- Gamma Capricorni
- Gliese 65
- HD 123569
- HD 203842
- HD 40873
- HD 56618
- HD 75171
- Hyades Stream
- Iota2 Muscae
- Kappa1 Lupi
- Lambda1 Phoenicis
- Upsilon Serpentis
- Zeta Fornacis
- Zeta Pavonis
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella
Also known as 13 Aur, 13 Aurigae, ADS 3841, ADS 3841 A, ADS 3841 AP, ADS 3841 B, ADS 3841 C, ADS 3841 D, ADS 3841 E, ADS 3841 F, ADS 3841 G, ADS 3841 H, ADS 3841 L, ADS 3841 P, Alhajoth, Alpha Aur, Alpha Aurigae, BD +45 1076, BD +45 1077, BD +45 1077B, BD +45 1077C, BD +45 1077D, BD +45 1077E, BD +45 1077F, BD +45 1077G, BD+45 1076, BD+45 1077, BD+45 1077B, BD+45 1077C, BD+45 1077D, BD+45 1077E, BD+45 1077F, BD+45 1077G, CAPELLA L, CCDM J05168+4559, CCDM J05168+4559A, CCDM J05168+4559AP, CCDM J05168+4559B, CCDM J05168+4559C, CCDM J05168+4559D, CCDM J05168+4559E, CCDM J05168+4559F, CCDM J05168+4559G, CCDM J05168+4559H, CCDM J05168+4559HL, CCDM J05168+4559L, CCDM J05168+4559P, Capella (star), Capella A, Capella Aa, Capella Ab, Capella H, Capella in fiction, FK5 193, GC 6427, GJ 194, GJ 195 A, GJ 195 B, Gl 194, Gliese 194, HD 34029, HIP 24608, HR 1708, Hokulei, IDS 05093+4554, IDS 05093+4554 A, IDS 05093+4554 AP, IDS 05093+4554 P, IDS 05103+4544 L, LTT 11619, LTT 11622, NLTT 14766, NLTT 14788, PPM 47921, PPM 47925, PPM 47926, PPM 47938, SAO 40184, SAO 40186, Shepherd's Star, Star Capella, , Α Aur, Α Aurigae.
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