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Ursa Major Moving Group
The Ursa Major Moving Group, also known as Collinder 285 and the Ursa Major association, is the closest Stellar kinematics#Moving groups, stellar moving group – a set of stars with common velocities in space and thought to have a common origin in space and time. In the case of the Ursa Major group, all the stars formed about 300 million years ago. Its core is located roughly 80 light years away and part of the Local Bubble. It is rich in bright stars including most of the stars of the Big Dipper. Discovery and constituents All stars in the Ursa Major Moving Group are moving in roughly the same direction at similar velocities, and also have similar chemical compositions and estimated ages. This evidence suggests to astronomers that the stars in the group share a common origin. Based on the numbers of its constituent stars, the Ursa Major Moving Group is believed to have once been an open cluster, having formed from a protostellar nebula approximately 500 million years ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PSM V04 D306 Ursa Major
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Beta Aurigae
Beta Aurigae is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Auriga (constellation), Auriga. Its identifier is a Bayer designation that is Romanization of Greek, Latinized from β Aurigae, and abbreviated Beta Aur or β Aur. This star has the official name Menkalinan, pronounced . The combined apparent visual magnitude of the system is 1.9, making it the second-brightest member of the constellation after Capella (star), Capella. Using the stellar parallax, parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, the distance to this star system can be estimated as , give or take a half-light-year margin of error. It is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −18 km/s. Along their respective orbits around the Milky Way, Beta Aurigae and the Sun are closing in on each other, so that in around one million years it will become the brightest star in the night sky. It is predicted to come as close as in 1.31 million years. Nomenclature ''β ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursa Majoris Gaia DR3
Ursa is a Latin word meaning bear. Derivatives of this word are ursine or Ursini. Ursa or URSA may also refer to: General * Ursa (Finland), a Finnish astronomical association * ''Ursa'' (spider), a spider genus in the family Araneidae * Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation * Ursa Minor, the Small Bear constellation * '' Ursa the Bear'', a former public sculpture in Bristol * HMS ''Ursa'', the name of two ships of the Royal Navy * Blackmagic URSA, a digital movie camera Places * Ursa, Illinois, a village in the United States * Ursa, a village in Gârcov Commune, Olt County, Romania * Ursa Motoșeni, the former name of Motoșeni Commune, Bacău County, Romania * Ursolovo - place in Radilovo - Bulgaria People * Urša, feminine given name Media * Ursa, a monster in the film ''After Earth'' * Ursa, a mother of Zuko and Azula in the franchise '' Avatar: The Last Airbender'' * Ursa, a girlfriend of Bear in the television series ''Bear in the Big Blue House'' * Ursa, a char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizar And Alcor
Mizar and Alcor are two stars forming a naked eye double in the handle of the Big Dipper (or Plough) asterism in the constellation of Ursa Major. Their magnitudes are 2.2 and 3.9, and the pair can easily be seen without the aid of a telescope. Mizar and its fainter companion Alcor are actually a four-star binary system consisting of two pairs of double stars that are gravitationally bound to each other. The traditional name Mizar derives from the Arabic المئزر or miʼzar, meaning "apron; wrapper, covering, cover". Alcor was originally the Arabic سها or Suhā/Sohā, meaning either the "forgotten" or "neglected" one. The ancient Persians and the Bedouins used distinguishing Mizar and Alcor as a test of vision. Mizar, also designated Zeta Ursae Majoris (ζ Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Zeta UMa, ζ UMa), is itself a quadruple system and Alcor, also designated 80 Ursae Majoris (80 UMa), is a binary, the pair together forming a sextuple system. In fact, Mizar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main-sequence
In astronomy, the main sequence is a classification of stars which appear on plots of stellar color versus brightness as a continuous and distinctive band. Stars on this band are known as main-sequence stars or dwarf stars, and positions of stars on and off the band are believed to indicate their physical properties, as well as their progress through several types of star life-cycles. These are the most numerous true stars in the universe and include the Sun. Color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams after Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell. After condensation and ignition of a star, it generates thermal energy in its dense core region through nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. During this stage of the star's lifetime, it is located on the main sequence at a position determined primarily by its mass but also based on its chemical composition and age. The cores of main-sequence stars are in hydrostatic equilibrium, where outward thermal p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellar Classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their stellar spectrum, spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is analyzed by splitting it with a Prism (optics), prism or diffraction grating into a spectrum exhibiting the Continuum (spectrum), rainbow of colors interspersed with spectral lines. Each line indicates a particular chemical element or molecule, with the line strength indicating the abundance of that element. The strengths of the different spectral lines vary mainly due to the temperature of the photosphere, although in some cases there are true abundance differences. The ''spectral class'' of a star is a short code primarily summarizing the ionization state, giving an objective measure of the photosphere's temperature. Most stars are currently classified under the Morgan–Keenan (MK) system using the letters ''O'', ''B'', ''A'', ''F'', ''G'', ''K'', and ''M'', a sequence from the hottest (''O'' type) to the cool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaia Mission
''Gaia'' was a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) that was launched in 2013 and operated until March 2025. The spacecraft was designed for astrometry: measuring the positions, distances and motions of stars with unprecedented precision, and the positions of exoplanets by measuring attributes about the stars they orbit such as their apparent magnitude and color. , the mission data processing continues, aiming to construct the largest and most precise 3D space catalog ever made, totalling approximately 1 billion astronomical objects, mainly stars, but also planets, comets, asteroids and quasars, among others. To study the precise position and motion of its target objects, the spacecraft monitored each of them about 70 times over the five years of the nominal mission (2014–2019), and about as many during its extension. Due to its detectors not degrading as fast as initially expected, the mission was given an extension. As of March 2023, the spacecraft had en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
