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List Of Stars In Telescopium ...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Telescopium, sorted by decreasing brightness. See also * List of stars by constellation References * * * * * {{Stars of Telescopium *List Telescopium Telescopium is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve named in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. Its name is a Latinized fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated to stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye, all within the Milky Way galaxy. A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Its total mass is the main factor determining its evolution and eventual fate. A star shines for most of its active life due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epsilon Telescopii
Epsilon Telescopii, Latinized from ε Telescopii, is a solitary, orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.53. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.80 mas as seen from Earth, it is located roughly 410 light years from the Sun, give or take 20 light years. This an evolved K-type giant with a stellar classification of K0 III. It displays an infrared excess, suggesting the presence of an orbiting disk of dust. The star is radiating 293 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,996 K. It has a 13th magnitude optical companion at an angular separation of 16.30 arcsecond A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol , is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree. Since one degree is of a turn (or complete rotation), one minute of arc is of a turn. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nu Telescopii
Nu Telescopii, Latinized from ν Telescopii, is a slightly evolved star in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.33, allowing it to be faintly visible to the naked eye. The object is relatively close at a distance of 169 light years but is approaching the Solar System with a heliocentric radial velocity of about . There hasn't been much agreement on Nu Telescopii's spectral classification. It was initially categorized as Am star, with a classification of kA4mF3IV: . This indicates that the object has the calcium K-lines of an A4 star and the metallic lines of a F3 subgiant. However, Nu Telescopii was shown not to have a peculiar spectrum and was given a class of A9 Vn, indicating that it is an A-type main-sequence star displaying broad (nebulous) absorption lines due to rapid rotation. It has since been classified as an evolved A7 star with either a blended luminosity class of a giant star or subgiant (III/IV) or only subgiant (I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kappa Telescopii
Kappa Telescopii (κ Telescopii) is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.20, it is visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 12.00 mas as seen from Earth, it is located around 272 light years from the Sun. At the age of around 1.25 billion years, this an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of G8/K0 III, showing a spectrum with characteristics intermediate between a G-type and a K-type star. It has an estimated 1.9 times the mass of the Sun and 10.5 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 77.6 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature The effective temperature of a body such as a star or planet is the temperature of a black body that would emit the same total amount of electromagnetic radiation. Effective temperature is often used as an estimate of a body's surface temperature ... of 4,968 K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variable Star
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) changes with time. This variation may be caused by a change in emitted light or by something partly blocking the light, so variable stars are classified as either: * Intrinsic variables, whose luminosity actually changes; for example, because the star periodically swells and shrinks. * Extrinsic variables, whose apparent changes in brightness are due to changes in the amount of their light that can reach Earth; for example, because the star has an orbiting companion that sometimes eclipses it. Many, possibly most, stars have at least some variation in luminosity: the energy output of the Sun, for example, varies by about 0.1% over an 11-year solar cycle. Discovery An ancient Egyptian calendar of lucky and unlucky days composed some 3,200 years ago may be the oldest preserved historical document of the discovery of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol. Of the modern astronomers, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rho Telescopii
Rho Telescopii (ρ Tel, ρ Telescopii) is the Bayer designation for an astrometric binary star system in the southern constellation of Telescopium. It is visible to the naked eye, with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.17. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 17.63 mas as measured from Earth, it is located approximately 185 light years from the Sun. This appears to be a single-lined spectroscopic binary as it displays radial velocity variation with a period of 1.7 days. The visible component is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F6 V. It has about double the mass of the Sun and is radiating 25.6 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,303 K. The star is a bright X-ray source with a luminosity of . Relative to neighboring stars, Rho Telescopii has a peculiar velocity of . It may be a member of the Tucana-Horologium association The Tucana-Horologium association (Tuc-Hor), or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta2 Telescopii
Delta2 Telescopii is a blue-white-hued binary star system in the southern constellation of Telescopium. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.05. The distance to this system, as determined with an annual parallax shift of 2.73 mas, is roughly 1,200 light-years. At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction of 0.36 due to interstellar dust. The pair have an orbital period of 21.7 days and an eccentricity of 0.22. For the merged stellar classification, Houk (1978) gives B3 IV/V, while Levato (1975) lists a more evolved Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation te ... class of B3 III. It appears to be a relatively young system, barely 40 million years old. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Dwarf
Brown dwarfs (also called failed stars) are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen (hydrogen-1, 1H) into helium in their cores, unlike a main sequence, main-sequence star. Instead, they have a mass between the most massive gas giant planets and the least massive stars, approximately 13 to 80 Jupiter mass, times that of Jupiter (). However, they can deuterium burning, fuse deuterium (deuterium, 2H), and the most massive ones (> ) can lithium burning, fuse lithium (lithium-7, 7Li). Astronomers classify self-luminous objects by spectral classification, spectral class, a distinction intimately tied to the surface temperature, and brown dwarfs occupy types M, L, T, and Y. As brown dwarfs do not undergo stable hydrogen fusion, they cool down over time, progressively passing through later spectral types as they age. Despite their name, to the naked eye, brown dwarfs would appear in different colors depending on their temperatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debris Disk
A debris disk (American English), or debris disc (Commonwealth English), is a circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star. Sometimes these disks contain prominent rings, as seen in the image of Fomalhaut on the right. Debris disks are found around stars with mature planetary systems, including at least one debris disk in orbit around an evolved neutron star. Debris disks can also be produced and maintained as the remnants of collisions between planetesimals, otherwise known as asteroids and comets. By 2001, more than 900 candidate stars had been found to possess a debris disk. They are usually discovered by examining the star system in infrared light and looking for an excess of radiation beyond that emitted by the star. This excess is inferred to be radiation from the star that has been absorbed by the dust in the disk, then re-radiated away as infrared energy. Debris disks are often described as massive analogs to the debris in the Solar System. Most known d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eta Telescopii
Eta Telescopii (η Telescopii) is a white-hued star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. This is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.03. It is approximately 158 light years from Earth and is a member of the Beta Pictoris Moving Group of stars that share a common motion through space. It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 23.7 km/s relative to the Sun. In 1998, imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a 12th magnitude object around 4" distant from Eta Telescopii, and calculated to be a brown dwarf of spectral type M7V or M8V with a surface temperature of around 2600 K. It is located around 192 AU distant from the primary star, and weighs between 20 and 50 Jupiter masses. This star has 3.24 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating around 24 times the Sun's luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 11,941. The age of the star is only about 12 million years. It is emitting an exces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slow Irregular Variable
A slow irregular variable (ascribed the GCVS types L, LB and LC) is a variable star that exhibit no or very poorly defined periodicity in their slowly changing light emissions. These stars have often been little-studied, and once more is learnt about them, they are reclassified into other categories such as semiregular variables. Nomenclature Irregular variable stars were first given acronyms based on the letter "I": ''Ia'', ''Ib''. and ''Ic''. These were later refined so that the I codes were used "nebular" or "rapidly irregular" variable stars such as T Tauri and Orion variables. The remaining irregular stars, cool slowly varying giants and supergiants of type Ib or Ic were reassigned to Lb and Lc. When the General Catalogue of Variable Stars standardised its acronyms to be all uppercase, the codes LB and LC were used. Type Lb ''Slow irregular variables of late spectral types ( K, M, C, S); as a rule, they are giants'' The GCVS also claims to give this type to slow irregula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Telescopii
Xi Telescopii, Latinized from ξ Telescopii, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Telescopium. It is visible to the naked eye, with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.95. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.02 mas as measured from Earth, it is located approximately 1,100 light-years from the Sun. This is an evolved star with a stellar classification of K5 III or M1 IIab, indicating it is a giant or bright giant star. This is a variable star tentatively classified as a slow irregular-type variable with a brightness that varies between magnitude +4.89 and +4.94. Koen and Eyer examined the ''Hipparcos'' data for this star, and found that it varied periodically, with a period of 12.36 days, and an amplitude of 0.0083 magnitudes. With around 56 times the Sun's radius, it shines with a luminosity Luminosity is an absolute measure of radiated electromagnetic power (light), the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting objec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
