47 Tucanae or 47 Tuc (also designated as NGC 104 and Caldwell 106) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It is about 4.45 ± 0.01 kpc...
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Beta Tucanae, Latinized from β Tucanae, is a group of six stars which appear to be at least loosely bound into a system in the constellation Tucana. Three...
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Tucana (redirect from Mu Tucanae)
magnitude or fainter; the brightest is Alpha Tucanae with an apparent visual magnitude of 2.87. Beta Tucanae is a star system with six member stars, while...
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DS Tucanae (HD 222259) is a binary star system 144 light years away in the constellation of Tucana. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 8.5, and is...
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Zeta Tucanae, Latinized from ζ Tucanae, is a star in the constellation Tucana. It is a spectral class F9.5 main sequence star with an apparent magnitude...
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Iota Tucanae (ι Tuc, ι Tucanae) is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Tucana. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.72 mas as seen from...
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third-most in a cluster tied to the Milky Way, following Terzan 5 and 47 Tucanae. Messier 28 taken by Hubble. 2.5' view of M28 taken by Hubble Space Telescope...
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Epsilon Tucanae (ε Tuc, ε Tucanae) is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Tucana. With an apparent visual magnitude of +4.50, it is faintly...
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a few thousand solar masses may be located in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. This was based on the accelerations and distributions of pulsars in the...
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Lambda2 Tucanae is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Tucana. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of...
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ν Tucanae, Latinized as Nu Tucanae, is a solitary, variable star in the southern constellation of Tucana. This red-hued object is visible to the naked...
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Small Magellanic Cloud (section X-ray sources)
and active population of X-ray binaries. Recent star formation has led to a large population of massive stars and high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) which...
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Lambda1 Tucanae is the Bayer designation for one member of a pair of stars sharing a common proper motion through space, which lie within the southern...
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stragglers have been observed to rotate quickly, with one example in 47 Tucanae observed to rotate 75 times faster than the Sun, which is consistent with...
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clusters. The globular cluster Terzan 5 contains 37 of these, followed by 47 Tucanae with 22 and M28 and M15 with 8 pulsars each. Millisecond pulsars, which...
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Gamma Tucanae, Latinized from γ Tucanae, is a star in the constellation Tucana, marking the toucan's beak. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with...
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September 2005, with 1-arc-second resolution images of globular cluster 47 Tucanae, open cluster NGC 6152, spiral galaxy NGC 6744, and the Lagoon Nebula....
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Pi Tucanae (π Tuc, π Tucanae) is a double star in the southern constellation of Tucana. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual...
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Andromeda Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, the Orion Nebula, Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae, the Ptolemy Cluster Messier 7 near the tail of Scorpius and the globular...
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (category SpaceX payloads contracted by NASA)
candidate exoplanets. On 23 July 2019, the discovery of the young exoplanet DS Tucanae Ab (HD 222259 Ab) in the ~45 Myr old Tucana-Horologium young moving group...
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Rho Tucanae (ρ Tuc, ρ Tucanae) is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Tucana. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent...
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years. Dabih Mintaka HD 155448 KIC 4150611 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 Beta Tucanae Castor HD 139691 TYC 7037-89-1 If Alcor is considered part of the Mizar...
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Rapidly oscillating Ap star (redirect from CN Tucanae)
(2): 362. Bibcode:2001MNRAS.323..362B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04182.x. Cunha, Margarida S. (2002). "A theoretical instability strip for rapidly...
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now are occasionally mistakenly treated as Flamsteed designations. 47 Tucanae, a number assigned by Bode, is a famous example. Full-sky star catalogues...
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1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15678.x. S2CID 53377049. Ma, J.; de Grijs, R.; Chen, D.; van den Bergh, S.; Fan, Z.; Wu, Z.; Wu, H.; Zhou, X.; Wu, J.; Jiang, Z.; Chen...
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clusters visible to the naked eye include the Pleiades, Hyades, and 47 Tucanae. Open clusters are very different from globular clusters. Unlike the spherically...
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fourth-brightest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22. An estimated 100 light years across, it is thought to contain...
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unit around a star that is within the core of a dense cluster, such as 47 Tucanae, would survive only on the order of a hundred million years. There is a...
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Herbig Ae/Be stars. If a red dwarf star is emitting immense stellar flares and x-rays, the star can be calculated to be in an early stage of its main-sequence...
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