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    Alpha Pictoris (α Pic, α Pictoris) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Pictor. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.27, which is...
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    Beta Pictoris (abbreviated β Pictoris or β Pic) is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor. It is located 63.4 light-years (19.4 pc) from...
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    Pictor (redirect from Pictoris)
    brightest star is Alpha Pictoris, a white main-sequence star around 97 light-years away from Earth. Pictor also hosts RR Pictoris, a cataclysmic variable...
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    axes are oriented differently. (See Poles of astronomical bodies.) Alpha Pictoris is the south pole star of Mercury while Omicron Draconis is its north...
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  • Mu Leporis Star 3.29 Iota Draconis Star Suspected variable star 3.30 Alpha Pictoris Star 3.30 Beta Phoenicis Binary star system 3.30 Xi Puppis Triple star...
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    initially formed an open cluster. Other stars in this association include Alpha Pictoris, Beta Canis Minoris and the open cluster IC 2391. In total more than...
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    Vega (redirect from Alpha Lyrae)
    has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively close at only 25 light-years...
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    Thuban (redirect from Alpha Draconis)
    Thuban (/ˈθjuːbæn/), with Bayer designation Alpha Draconis or α Draconis, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Draco. A relatively...
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    location and motion through space, Alpha Circini is a candidate member of a stellar kinematic group known as the Beta Pictoris moving group. This group shares...
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    Polaris (redirect from Alpha Ursae Minoris)
    constellation of Ursa Minor. It is designated α Ursae Minoris (Latinized to Alpha Ursae Minoris) and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star. With...
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  • Kapteyn's Star (redirect from VZ Pictoris)
    It is a variable star of the BY Draconis type with the identifier VZ Pictoris. This means that the luminosity of the star changes because of magnetic...
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    Jeffrey; et al. (2017). "1–2.4μm Near-IR Spectrum of the Giant Planet β Pictoris b Obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager". The Astronomical Journal. 153...
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    planetary systems. The first exocomets were detected in 1987 around Beta Pictoris, a very young A-type main-sequence star. There are now a total of 11 stars...
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    Microscopii are probably a wide triple system and members of the Beta Pictoris moving group. Nicknamed "Speedy Mic", BO Microscopii is a star with an...
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    Gaia spacecraft to Hipparcos data for the Beta Pictoris system was able to measure the mass of Beta Pictoris b, constraining it to 11±2 Jupiter masses. This...
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    series, pl. 33, London, 1884–94. Westwood, J. O., Palaeographia sacra pictoris, no. 19, London, 1843–5. Direct link to the digitised manuscript, Library...
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    The telescope's scientific discoveries include direct imaging of Beta Pictoris b, the first extrasolar planet so imaged, tracking individual stars moving...
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    stars. A-type star systems known to feature planets include HD 15082, Beta Pictoris, HR 8799 and HD 95086. Within 40 light years: Delta Capricorni is likely...
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    [citation needed] List of nearby stellar associations and moving groups β Pictoris moving group AB Doradus moving group King, Jeremy R.; et al. (April 2003)...
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    have brown dwarf companions. A member of the 12-million-year-old Beta Pictoris moving group of stars that share a common proper motion through space,...
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    Association (Pleiades moving group) AB Doradus moving group Alpha Persei moving cluster Beta Pictoris moving group Castor moving group Corona Australis association...
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    the star changes brightness as it rotates. It is a member of the Beta Pictoris moving group, a loose association of young stars moving across the galaxy...
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    stars—most of which have ages in the range of ~10 million years (e.g. Beta Pictoris, 51 Ophiuchi) to billions of years (e.g. Tau Ceti). These systems are usually...
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    Andromedae A A0 02.5 003.2 000,080 10,800 Alpha Coronae Borealis A A5 01.7 002.1 000,020 08,620 Beta Pictoris F0 01.3 001.7 000,006 07,240 Gamma Virginis...
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    Vertical Cloud Structure of a Young Low-mass Brown Dwarf, an Analog to the β-Pictoris b Directly Imaged Exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE Spectrophotometric...
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    common in the Milky Way. The first exocomet system detected was around Beta Pictoris, a very young A-type main-sequence star, in 1987. A total of 11 such exocomet...
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  • later discarded as it does not show excess and could belong to the Beta Pictoris moving group. The Disk Detective Collaboration identified two additional...
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  • 4 1 KV HD 189733 62.8 ± 1.1 2 K1.5V + M 7.676 has 1 known planet Beta Pictoris 62.9 ± 0.6 1 A6V 3.861 has 1 known planet WISE 0032-4946 62.9 1 T8.5 HD...
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  • aimed at nearby young planetary systems such as Alpha PsA (25 ly (light-years) away) and Beta Pictoris (63.4 ly), both of which show accretion discs and...
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    IC 2391 supercluster Beta Pictoris moving group Castor moving group AB Doradus moving group Zeta Herculis moving group Alpha Persei moving cluster Cameleopardis...
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