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    Beta Centauri is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is officially called Hadar (/ˈheɪdɑːr/). The Bayer designation of...
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    three stars: Rigil Kentaurus (α Centauri A), Toliman (α Centauri B), and Proxima CentauriCentauri C). Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun...
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    stars include Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Solar System, its neighbour in the sky Beta Centauri, and V766 Centauri, one of the largest...
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    Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years (1.3020 pc) away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin...
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  • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd...
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    perpendicular line taken southwards from the east-west axis of Alpha Centauri to Beta Centauri, which are stars at an alike declination to Crux and of a similar...
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    Project Longshot (category Alpha Centauri)
    nomenclature for these two components of the Alpha Centauri binary star system is Alpha Centauri A and B. Beta Centauri is an entirely different, unassociated star...
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    needed] The Commonwealth Star does not have any official relation to Beta Centauri, despite the latter's brightness and location in the sky; however, the...
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  • Hadar may refer to: Beta Centauri, a star Hadar (narrowboat), a working narrow boat on UK canals Hadar, Ethiopia Hadar HaCarmel, Haifa, Israel Hadar,...
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    star in the night sky. A line from the two "Pointers", Alpha Centauri through Beta Centauri, leads to within 1° north of this star. Using parallax measurements...
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    bright stars in the night sky are examples of blue giants, including Beta Centauri (B1III); Mimosa (B0.5III); Bellatrix (B2III); Epsilon Canis Majoris...
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    manufactured by McDonnell Aircraft. The name 'Agena' derived from the star Beta Centauri, also known as Agena. The combined spacecraft was a 26-foot (7.92 m)-long...
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    triangulated using the constellation Crux as well as the stars Alpha and Beta Centauri (about 30° counterclockwise from Crux) of the constellation Centaurus...
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    Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency for the star Beta Centauri, also known as Agena, because this upper stage would "ignite in the...
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  • called "The Pointers": Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, which point to the Southern Cross Alpha Ursae Majoris (Dubhe) and Beta Ursae Majoris (Merak), which...
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    the fly containing the Southern Cross and the two pointers (Alpha and Beta Centauri). South Australia then adopted a second flag in 1876, also a Blue Ensign...
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    now come to refer to Beta Centauri. It is unclear whether the pair of stars was originally Alpha and Beta Centauri or Alpha and Beta Columbae. In any case...
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    objects), and with the first-magnitude stars Alpha Centauri (the closest star to the Sun) and Beta Centauri pointing at the cross, distinguishing the cross...
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  • prototype Gunstar survive. Alex discovers Beta and contacts Centauri to retrieve him. Centauri arrives just as Alex and Beta are attacked by an alien assassin...
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    260 nm). Slitless spectrograms were obtained of the stars Vega and Beta Centauri between 2000 and 3800 Å (200 and 380 nm). The telescope was operated...
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  • Fritz (July 1, 2021). "Precision Millimeter Astrometry of the $\alpha$ Centauri AB System". The Astronomical Journal. 162 (1): 14. arXiv:2104.10086. Bibcode:2021AJ...
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  • Saturn Planet Includes rings 0.46 0.40 Achernar Binary star system 0.61 Beta Centauri Triple star system Slightly variable 0.71: 36  −2.94: 36  Mars Planet...
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    or a few days (components of Beta Lyrae), but also hundreds of thousands of years (Proxima Centauri around Alpha Centauri AB). The Applegate mechanism...
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  • perpendicularly bisecting the line joining the "Pointers" (Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri). Near the end of the 20th century, the advent of satellite-based...
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  • Manchester, Toledo, Windsor and Brisbane Phenom CPUs: Agena (Beta Centauri), Toliman (Alpha Centauri), Kuma (Nu Draconis), Deneb (Alpha Cygni), Propus (Eta...
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    named by the Inca, was a llama extended from Scorpius to Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, in which those two stars formed the llama's eyes, or llamaq ñawin...
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    Meaning Arabic name Scientific star name Hadar Ḥaḍār Settlement حضار Beta Centauri Hamal Rā's al-Ḥamal (head of) the Ram رأس الحمل Alpha Arietis Heka al-Haqʿah...
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    Australe, Norma and Lupus, Circinus lies adjacent to the Alpha and Beta Centauri stars. As it is at declination −50° to −70°, the whole constellation...
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    the south and Ara to the east. It lies near the Pointers (Alpha and Beta Centauri), with only Circinus in between. The constellation is located within...
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  • of the brightest stars in the sky, such as Beta Crucis and Beta Centauri; Spica is also classified as a Beta Cephei variable but mysteriously stopped pulsating...
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