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Stars with proper names

  • RigelRigel shines as a blue supergiant in the equatorial constellation of Orion. Astronomers classify this star with the spectral type B8Ia.
  • SunThe Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of part of a giant molecular cloud that consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium.
  • Proxima CentauriIn 1915, Robert Innes stood at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg and spotted a faint star moving across the sky. This star shared the same proper motion…
  • VegaOn the 17th of July 1850, William Bond and John Adams Whipple captured a daguerreotype image of Vega at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • Alpha CentauriThe Alpha Centauri system holds three stars in a single gravitational family. Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman form a binary pair that appears as one bright point…