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    Tarantula Nebula (redirect from 30 Doradus)
    The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), forming its south-east corner (from Earth's...
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    R Doradus (HD 29712 or P Doradus) is a red giant variable star in the far-southern constellation Dorado, close to the border with Reticulum. Its distance...
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    S Doradus was still uncertain, considered possibly to be a pre-main-sequence star, but during the next decade the consensus settled on the S Doradus type...
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    in their spectra and brightness. They are also known as S Doradus variables after S Doradus, one of the brightest stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud...
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    Kappa Doradus, Latinized from κ Doradus, is a solitary star located in the southern constellation Dorado. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a...
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    Pi2 Doradus, Latinized from π2 Doradus, is a solitary star located in the southern constellation Doradus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a yellow-hued...
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    Gamma Doradus variables are variable stars which display variations in luminosity due to non-radial pulsations of their surface. The stars are typically...
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    G Doradus (HD 37297; HR 1917; 28 G. Doradus) is a spectroscopic binary located in the southern constellation Dorado, the dolphinfish. It has an apparent...
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    Gamma Doradus, Latinized from γ Doradus, is the third-brightest star in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with...
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  • δ Doradus (often Latinised to Delta Doradus, abbreviated to δ Dor or delta Dor) is a star in the southern constellation of Dorado. Based upon an annual...
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  • AB Doradus Moving Group is a group of about 30 associated stars that are moving through space together with the star AB Doradus. A moving group is distinguished...
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    Lambda Doradus (Lambda Dor), Latinized from λ Doradus, is a solitary yellow hued star located in the southern constellation Dorado. It has an apparent...
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    rotating ellipsoidal variable, seven Delta Scuti variables, six Gamma Doradus variables, and one hybrid δ Sct/γ Dor pulsator. Four spectroscopic binary...
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    Pi1 Doradus, Latinized from π1 Doradus, is a solitary star located in the southern constellation Dorado near the southwestern border with Mensa. It is...
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    Alpha Doradus, Latinized from α Doradus, is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Dorado. The distance to this system, as measured using...
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    WZ Doradus (HD 33684; HR 1695; 21 G. Doradus) is a solitary red-hued variable star located in the southern constellation Dorado. It has an average apparent...
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  • 36 G. Doradus (HD 40409) is a suspected astrometric binary star system in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is a faint system but visible to the...
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  • Eta1 Doradus, Latinized from η1 Doradus, is a star in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with...
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  • Magellanic Cloud, in NGC 2070 near the R136 cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus). At 226 M☉ and 5,000,000 L☉ it is the most massive known star, and close...
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    BB Doradus or BB Dor is a cataclysmic variable, a pre-nova star, thus a close pair binary star system. It is composed of a red dwarf and a white dwarf...
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  • Eta2 Doradus, Latinized from η2 Doradus, is a star in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, reddish star with...
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    The binary star AB Doradus Ba/Bb orbits the primary AB Doradus A at an average distance of 135 astronomical units (AUs). AB Doradus C is a closer in companion...
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    Beta Doradus, Latinized from β Doradus, is the second brightest star in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is a Classical Cepheid variable, with...
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    Northern Fafnir Southern η1 Doradus...
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    blocking and is believed to drive pulsations in the γ {\displaystyle \gamma } Doradus variables. Observations from the Kepler satellite revealed eccentric binary...
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    HD 42540 (redirect from Mu Doradus)
    based on parallax. This star was mistakenly catalogued as Mu Doradus (Mu Dor/μ Doradus/μ Dor) at incorrect coordinates, then assumed to be variable as...
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    1997 when a group of astronomers measured R Doradus with a diameter of 57.0±0.5 mas, although R Doradus, being much closer to Earth at about 200 ly,...
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    of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The cluster can be seen in the far southern...
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    7..113C. doi:10.5479/ADS/bib/1913LicOB.7.113C. Turner, D. G.; Kovtyukh, V. V.; Usenko, I. A.; Gorlova, N. I. (2013). "The Pulsation Mode of the Cepheid...
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    Theta Doradus, Latinized from θ Doradus, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Dorado. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 6.64 mas as...
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