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...
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Double Star is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, and April...
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Look up double star in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Double Star is a novel by Robert Heinlein. Double Star may also refer to: Double star, a pair...
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Washington Double Star Catalog, a database of visual double stars compiled by the United States Naval Observatory, contains over 100,000 pairs of double stars...
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Double Star was a joint satellite based space mission by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). It was the...
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Qingdao Eagles (redirect from Qingdao Double Star)
the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Conson DoubleStar is the club's corporate sponsor, and the team's mascot is an eagle. In...
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first "double" in the term refers to the two (double) categories and the second "double" refers to accumulating ten or more (typically double digits)...
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bodies (such as comets). A star system of two stars is known as a binary star, binary star system or physical double star. If there are no tidal effects...
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highlight a particular type of star, such as variables or nearby stars. Aitken's double star catalogue (1932) lists 17,180 double stars north of declination...
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symbol in astronomical notation representing: Binary star Double star Multiple star Multiple star system 2018 Winter Paralympics (**), whose logo is a...
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later published the General Catalogue of 1,290 Double Stars. In 1906, he published the Burnham Double Star Catalogue, containing 13,665 pairs of stars....
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (redirect from Struve Double Star Catalog)
telescope Struve discovered a very large number of double stars. In 1827 published his double star catalogue Catalogus novus stellarum duplicium. Stars...
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Winnecke 4 (redirect from Double Star M40)
Winnecke 4 (also known as Messier 40 or WNC 4) is an optical double star consisting of two unrelated stars in a northerly zone of the sky, Ursa Major...
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In the mathematical field of graph theory, the double-star snark is a snark with 30 vertices and 45 edges. In 1975, Rufus Isaacs introduced two infinite...
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The Washington Double Star Catalog, or WDS, is a catalog of double stars, maintained at the United States Naval Observatory. The catalog contains positions...
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both planetary bodies. Although up to a third of the star systems in the Milky Way are binary, double planets are expected to be much rarer given the typical...
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Double, Double is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Jan Friedman, part of the Star Trek: The Original Series franchise. One android has...
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Kepler's Supernova (redirect from Kepler's Star)
SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation...
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Visual binary (redirect from Visual double star)
massive star becomes a Main-Sequence star much faster than the less massive star. Argyle, R. W. (2012), Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars, The...
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(also known as Neelanjali Star Ruby), at 1,370 carats (274 g), is the world's largest double-star ruby. A ruby is known as a "star ruby" if it contains an...
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The Aitken Double Star Catalogue, or ADS, is a star catalogue of double stars. It was compiled by Robert Grant Aitken and published in 1932 in two volumes...
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variable star; and D is a magnitude 9.15 F3 main-sequence star. V647 Tau varies from magnitude +8.25 to +8.30 over 1.13 hours. The Washington Double Star Catalog...
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Aldebaran (redirect from Aldebaran (star))
stars are included in double star catalogues such as the Washington Double Star Catalog as WDS 04359+1631 and the Aitken Double Star Catalogue as ADS 3321...
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The Burnham Double Star Catalogue (BDS) is a catalogue of double stars within 121° of the celestial North Pole. It was published in two parts by the Carnegie...
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are a fair number of bright stars, both single and double, in Lepus. Alpha Leporis, the brightest star of Lepus, is a white supergiant of magnitude 2.6...
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British undergraduate degree classification (redirect from Double starred first)
Parts culminates in graduating with a "double first". It is possible in some Triposes to be awarded a "starred first", for examination scripts that "consistently...
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Brunner Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel), a 1950 mystery novel Double, Double (Star Trek novel), a 1989 science fiction novel Double Double: A Memoir...
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Gemini (constellation) (redirect from Menke (star))
orange dwarf star of magnitude 8.2. The period is over 1000 years; it is divisible in medium amateur telescopes. ε Gem (Mebsuta), a double star, includes...
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Crux (section Host star exoplanets in Crux)
0.1 magnitudes. γ Crucis or Gacrux is an optical double star. The primary is a red-hued giant star of magnitude 1.6, 88 light-years from Earth, and is...
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