AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is a young red dwarf star located 31.7 light-years (9.7 parsecs) away – about 8 times as far as the closest star after the Sun...
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AT Microscopii is a binary star system located at a distance of 35 ly (11 pc) from the Sun in the constellation of Microscopium. Both members are flare...
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Microscopium (redirect from Microscopii)
system AT Microscopii are probably a wide triple system and members of the Beta Pictoris moving group. Nicknamed "Speedy Mic", BO Microscopii is a star...
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designation Theta Microscopii (θ Mic / θ Microscopii) is shared by two star systems, in the constellation Microscopium: θ1 Microscopii, an A7 main sequence...
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Gamma Microscopii (γ Microscopii, γ Mic) is the brightest star in the faint southern constellation of Microscopium. It has an apparent visual magnitude...
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Alpha Microscopii (α Microscopii) is a star in the southern constellation of Microscopium. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude...
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AV Microscopii is a variable star in the southern constellation of Microscopium. It is a dim, red-hued star near the lower limit of visibility to the...
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Theta2 Microscopii (θ2 Mic) is a class A0III (white giant) star in the constellation Microscopium. Its apparent magnitude is 5.76 and it is approximately...
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Lacaille 8760 (redirect from AX Microscopii)
Lacaille 8760 (AX Microscopii) is a red dwarf star in the constellation Microscopium. It is one of the nearest stars to the Sun at about 12.9 light-years'...
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DD Microscopii, also known as CD−43°14304, is a binary star system in the constellation Microscopium. The system has a combined average apparent magnitude...
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Beta Microscopii (Beta Mic), Latinized from β Microscopii, is a solitary star in the constellation Microscopium. It is close to the lower limit of stars...
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ν Microscopii, Latinized as Nu Microscopii, is a star in the constellation Microscopium. It is an orange hued star that is visible to the naked eye as...
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BO Microscopii (BO Mic) is a star in the constellation Microscopium located about 170 light-years (52 parsecs; 11 million astronomical units) from the...
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Eta Microscopii, Latinised as η Microscopii, is a solitary star in the constellation Microscopium. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued...
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U Microscopii is a Mira variable star in the constellation Microscopium. It ranges from magnitude 7 to 14.4 over a period of 334 days. The Astronomical...
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ι Microscopii, Latinized as Iota Microscopii, is a suspected astrometric binary star system in the southern constellation of Microscopium, near the southern...
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T Microscopii is a semiregular variable star in the constellation Microscopium. It ranges from magnitude 6.74 to 8.11 over a period of 352 days. Located...
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ζ Microscopii, Latinised as Zeta Microscopii, is a solitary, yellow-white hued star in the southern constellation of Microscopium. It is faintly visible...
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θ1 Microscopii, Latinized as Theta1 Microscopii, is a suspected binary star system in the southern constellation of Microscopium. It is visible to the...
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Rapidly oscillating Ap star (redirect from BI Microscopii)
oscillations were discovered by Donald Kurtz using the 20-inch (510 mm) telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory, who saw 10–20-millimagnitude variations...
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δ Microscopii, Latinised as Delta Microscopii, is a faint, orange hued binary star system in the constellation Microscopium, marking the eyepiece end...
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Epsilon Microscopii, Latinized from ε Microscopii, is a single, white-hued star in the southern constellationof Microscopium. It is faintly visible to...
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R Microscopii is a star in the constellation Microscopium. It is a red giant star of spectral type M4e that is also a Mira variable, with an apparent...
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S Microscopii is a star in the constellation Microscopium. It is a red giant star of spectral type M3e-M5.5 that is also a Mira variable, with an apparent...
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Debris disks are found around stars with mature planetary systems, including at least one debris disk in orbit around an evolved neutron star. Debris disks...
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"A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii." Nature 582, no. 7813 (2020): 497-500. Günther, Maximilian N., Zhuchang...
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Paul Kalas (category University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni)
first optical images of debris disks surrounding the nearby red dwarf AU Microscopii and the bright star Fomalhaut. Kalas' Hubble Space Telescope image of...
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Alpha Centauri, with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from Earth. The brightest, most massive and most luminous...
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telescope or at its focal point, to block the view of a bright object so that fainter objects can be seen more easily. The coronagraph, at its simplest...
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"A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii". Nature. 582 (7813): 497–500. arXiv:2006.13248. Bibcode:2020Natur.582...
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