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    Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry...
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    survey of stars Yellow hypergiant "Why Does The Sun Shine?" Archived 2006-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, lecture, Barbara Ryden, Astronomy 162, Ohio State...
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    Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical...
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    hand. This depiction is from Augustin Royer's 1679 atlas. In Chinese astronomy, the stars forming the constellation Cassiopeia are found among three...
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    Stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement. 38: 367. Bibcode:1979A&AS...38..367L. Zsoldos, E.; Percy, J. R. (1991). "Photometry of yellow semiregular...
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    Pretelescopic astronomy Babylonian astronomy Chinese astronomy Egyptian astronomy Greek astronomy Hebrew astronomy Indian astronomy Islamic astronomy Russian...
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    asterism in 2002. Australian Aboriginal astronomy Chinese constellation Nakshatra "An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics: asterism". Dictionary...
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    72 light-years from Earth. The primary is a yellow-white star of magnitude 4.6 and the secondary is a yellow star of magnitude 5.8. 16 Draconis and 17 Draconis...
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    Sun (redirect from Sun (astronomy))
    iron. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V), informally called a yellow dwarf, though its light is actually white. It formed approximately 4.6 billion...
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    and μ Cyg, and the belly is represented by ι Peg and κ Peg. In Chinese astronomy, the modern constellation of Pegasus lies in The Black Tortoise of the...
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    Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575–585 nm. It is a...
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  • of astronomy is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to astronomy and cosmology, their sub-disciplines, and related fields. Astronomy is...
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    heavens and class book of astronomy: Accompanied by a celestial atlas Huntington, 1840 Retrieved 2012-06-25 E Colbert Astronomy without a telescope: being...
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    just be a closer post-AGB star. de Jager, C. (1998). "The Yellow Hypergiants". The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. 8 (3): 145–180. Bibcode:1998A&ARv...
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    pattern. The brightest star is the magnitude 2.2 Alpha Coronae Borealis. The yellow supergiant R Coronae Borealis is the prototype of a rare class of giant...
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    Astronomy in China has a long history stretching from the Shang dynasty, being refined over a period of more than 3,000 years. The ancient Chinese people...
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    In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Cancer lie within the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què). Cancer (Chinese astronomy) Objects of...
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    giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) A yellow supergiant (YSG) is a star, generally of spectral type F or G, having a...
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    SuperNovae". RochesterAstronomy.org. Retrieved 22 June 2018. Bishop, David (22 June 2018). "Supernovae 2018cow in CGCG 137-068". RochesterAstronomy.org. Retrieved...
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    parental yearnings". In Indian astronomy and Indian astrology, it is called Makara, the crocodile. Capricornus in Chinese astronomy Hippocampus (mythology),...
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