λ Lyrae, Latinized as Lambda Lyrae, is a suspected binary star system in the northern constellation of Lyra. It is an orange-hued point of light that is...

Kappa Lyrae, a typical red giant around 73 parsecs distant. Similar bright orange or red giants include the 4th-magnitude Theta Lyrae, Lambda Lyrae, and...

constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively...

stars are found. These pulsating horizontal-branch stars are known as RR Lyrae variable stars and they are obviously variable in brightness with periods...

Horizontal-branch stars hotter than the RR Lyrae gap are generally considered to be blue giants, and sometimes the RR Lyrae stars themselves are called blue giants...

the Sun's, on average, 1.5 M☉. BL Boötis type stars are a subtype of RR Lyrae variables. T Boötis was a nova observed in April 1860 at a magnitude of...

objects, support its dating to very roughly 12 billion years old. 18 RR Lyrae type variable stars have been found within. It bore the first discovery...

many of the longest-known variable stars, including the Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables. In stars with surface convection zones, turbulent fluids motions...

; Pérez-Villegas, A. (2022). "Precise distances from OGLE-IV member RR Lyrae stars in six bulge globular clusters". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 657: A123...

variable stars. M62 is a globular cluster rich in variable stars such as RR Lyrae variables and has two generations of stars with different element abundances...

the star's absorption of an accretion disc. Tau Canis Majoris is a Beta Lyrae-type eclipsing multiple star system that varies from magnitude 4.32 to 4...

Summer Triangle of Deneb, Altair, and Vega – α Cygni, α Aquilae, and α Lyrae – is prominent in the northern hemisphere summer skies, as its three stars...

causes the system to vary by 0.03 magnitudes. Serpens Caput contains many RR Lyrae variables, although most are too faint to be seen without professional photography...

when rotation alone would make it a spheroid. An example of this is Beta Lyrae. Hydrostatic equilibrium is also important for the intracluster medium,...

mythology Lyra η Lyrae Aa Aladfar The name is originally from Arabic: الأظفر al-ʾuẓfur ('the talons' [of the swooping eagle]), shared with μ Lyrae (Alathfar)...

the scorpion) الشولة Lambda Scorpii Shedir aṣ-Ṣadr the Breast الصدر Alpha Cassiopeiae Sheliak ash-Shiliyāq Lyra الشلياق Beta Lyrae Sheratan ash-Sharaṭayn...

variables, and rapidly oscillating Ap stars (roAps) near the main sequence; RR Lyrae variables where it intersects the horizontal branch; and the Cepheid variables...

(2008). "First Resolved Images Of The Eclipsing And Interacting Binary Beta Lyrae". The Astrophysical Journal. 684 (2): L95–L98. arXiv:0808.0932. Bibcode:2008ApJ...

23 Sigma Puppis Binary star system 3.25 Eta Serpentis Star 3.250 Gamma Lyrae Star 3.26 3.22 Gamma Hydri Star 3.26 3.25 Theta Ophiuchi Triple star system...

period was established by Henrietta Leavitt in 1908. Using cepheid and RR Lyrae variables to systematically chart the distribution of globular clusters...

contact with each other (overcontact binary) and are classed as a Beta Lyrae variable as their light varies from Earth as they eclipse each other. The...

(two) eyes of the lion'. Mu1 Scorpii is an eclipsing binary of the Beta Lyrae type. Discovered to be a spectroscopic binary by Solon Irving Bailey in...

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stars were known. John Goodricke himself discovered Delta Cephei and Beta Lyrae. Since 1850, the number of known variable stars has increased rapidly, especially...

Pulsating Cepheids and cepheid-like Cepheid variable Type II Cepheids RR Lyrae variable Delta Scuti variable SX Phoenicis variable Blue-white with early...

87 Cygnus within 3° will become the North Star at about 11,250 AD Alpha Lyrae Vega 0.026 Lyra within 5° used to be the North Star at about 12,000 BC;...

other around four times as luminous. The system is classified as a Beta Lyrae variable, the apparent magnitude varying from 8.83 to 9.72 over 0.66 days...

designations mark them as variable stars. Examples include R Cygni, RR Lyrae, and GN Andromedae. (Many variable stars also have designations in other...

the Traveler's Moon. Cue Ball is an uninhabitable ice world orbiting Beta Lyrae. Jm'ho is a moon similar to Europa, homeworld to the Gw'oth. It orbits a...

luminosities of giants there are several classes of pulsating variable stars: RR Lyrae variables, pulsating horizontal-branch class A (sometimes F) stars with...