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    Mira variables /ˈmaɪrə/ (named for the prototype star Mira) are a class of pulsating stars characterized by very red colours, pulsation periods longer...
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    variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion (Mira B). Mira A is a pulsating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable...
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    astronomers, the first variable star was identified in 1638 when Johannes Holwarda noticed that Omicron Ceti (later named Mira) pulsated in a cycle taking...
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    semiregular variable stars, particularly the SRa and SRb sub-classes, are often grouped with the Mira variables under the long-period variable heading. In...
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  • Look up mira in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mira is a star in the constellation Cetus Mira may also refer to: Mira (1971 film), a Dutch-Belgian film...
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    Catalogue of Variable Stars does not define a long-period variable star type, although it does describe Mira variables as long-period variables. The term...
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  • there are over 52,011 known variable stars, with more being discovered regularly, so a complete list of every single variable is impossible at this place...
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    Mira B, also known as VZ Ceti, is the companion star to the variable star Mira, separated by around 100 AU. Suspected as early as 1918, it was visually...
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    secondary is a star of magnitude 7.4. There are several variable stars in Lepus. R Leporis is a Mira variable star. It is also called "Hind's Crimson Star" for...
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    R Doradus (category Mira variables)
    likened to a Mira variable when its variations are relatively regular, although its amplitude of only 1.5 magnitudes is smaller than Mira variables. The star...
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    variations, with the latest variant having four models: Mira, Mira AVY, Mira Gino, and Mira VAN. The Mira is the latest successor to the line of cars begun...
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    of variable stars, including R and U Arietis, Mira-type variable stars, and T Arietis, a semi-regular variable star. R Arietis is a Mira variable star...
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    home to several variable stars. R Hydrae is a Mira variable star 2000 light-years from Earth; it is one of the brightest Mira variables at its maximum...
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    first defined in 1922 to represent a number of long-period variables (meaning Mira variables) and stars with similar peculiar spectra. Many of the absorption...
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  • Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2)". Retrieved 10 April 2012. Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; et al. (2012). "General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS...
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    R Aquarii (category Mira variables)
    Aqr) is a variable star in the constellation Aquarius. R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary...
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    Calabash Nebula (category Mira variables)
    motion. The central star is QX Puppis, a binary composed of a very cool Mira variable and an A-type main-sequence star. Violent gas collisions that produced...
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  • "Identification of a Constellation from a Position". Retrieved 2006-12-26. "AAVSO Website". American Association of Variable Star Observers. Retrieved 9 March 2014....
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    Leonis, Chertan. Leo is also home to a bright variable star, the red giant R Leonis. It is a Mira variable with a minimum magnitude of 10 and normal maximum...
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  • its original luminosity. Variables of this type are double star systems with one red giant, which probably is a Mira variable, and one a hot compact object...
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    is 344 light-years away. Centaurus is home to many variable stars. R Centauri is a Mira variable star with a minimum magnitude of 11.8 and a maximum...
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    S Cassiopeiae (category Mira variables)
    S Cassiopeiae (S Cas, HD 7769) is a Mira variable and S-type star in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is an unusually cool star, rapidly losing mass and...
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    LL Pegasi (category Mira variables)
    LL Pegasi (AFGL 3068) is a Mira variable star surrounded by a pinwheel-shaped nebula, IRAS 23166+1655, thought to be a preplanetary nebula. It is a binary...
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    same) passes into it. Mira ("wonderful", named by Bayer: Omicron Ceti, a star of the neck of the asterism) was the first variable star to be discovered...
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    binary system itself, with an apparent magnitude of 6.07. R Equulei is a Mira variable that ranges between magnitudes 8.0 and 15.7 over nearly 261 days. It...
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    (α) and Beta (β) reticuli. The reddish star R Reticuli is a Mira variable. This variable was discovered by C. Ragoonatha Chary at the Madras Observatory...
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  • C5,2e-C71e Mira variable, Vmax = 8.8m, Vmin = 13.5m, P = 406 d BE Lyn BE 79889 45649 09h 18m 17.18s +46° 09′ 11.3″ 8.80 A3 δ Sct variable, Vmax = 8.57m...
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    S Orionis (category Mira variables)
    between extremes of magnitude 7.2 and 14 every 14 months. S Orionis is a Mira variable that pulsates with an approximately 420‑day cycle, and varies in radius...
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    Chi Cygni (category Mira variables)
    Chi Cygni (Latinised from χ Cygni) is a Mira variable star in the constellation Cygnus, and also an S-type star. It is around 500 light years away. χ...
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    R Leporis (category Mira variables)
    of 40 years. Guandalini and Cristallo calculated the luminosity of Mira variables based on their periods. Using a period of 427.07 days, they calculated...
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