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85 relations: Age of Enlightenment, Alpha Mensae, Angular distance, AO Mensae, Apparent magnitude, Astronomer, Astronomical unit, Bartolomeu Dias, Bayer designation, Beta Mensae, Beta Pictoris moving group, Brown dwarf, BY Draconis variable, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, Celestial pole, Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg, Chamaeleon, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Circumstellar disc, Constellation, Constellation family, Declination, Doppler spectroscopy, Dorado, Equatorial coordinate system, Eta Mensae, Eugène Joseph Delporte, France, Gamma Mensae, Globular cluster, Glossary of astronomy, HD 268835, HD 38283, Hipparcos, Hydrus, Ian Ridpath, Infrared excess, International Astronomical Union, John Herschel, Jupiter mass, Keystone (architecture), Large Magellanic Cloud, Latin, Magellanic Clouds, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, NGC 1987, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Northern Hemisphere, Octans, ..., Open cluster, Orbit, Orbital eccentricity, Pi Mensae, Popular Astronomy (US magazine), Quasar, R Coronae Borealis variable, Radio astronomy, Redshift, Right ascension, Satellite galaxy, Sinbad the Sailor, Sky & Telescope, Solar luminosity, Solar mass, Solar radius, South Pole, Southern celestial hemisphere, Star cluster, Stellar classification, Sub-brown dwarf, Sun, Table (furniture), Table Mountain, The Astronomical Journal, Volans, W Mensae, Wavelength, WISE 0535−7500, X-ray astronomy, Zeta Mensae, 20th parallel north, 4th parallel north, 5th parallel north, 88 modern constellations. Expand index (35 more) »
Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".
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Alpha Mensae
α Mensae (Latinised as Alpha Mensae, abbreviated to α Men or Alpha Men) is the brightest star in the constellation Mensa.
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Angular distance
In mathematics (in particular geometry and trigonometry) and all natural sciences (e.g. astronomy and geophysics), the angular distance (angular separation, apparent distance, or apparent separation) between two point objects, as viewed from a location different from either of these objects, is the angle of length between the two directions originating from the observer and pointing toward these two objects.
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AO Mensae
AO Mensae is a variable star in the constellation Mensa.
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Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial object is a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth.
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Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
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Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, ua, or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun.
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Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias (Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1450 – 29 May 1500), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer.
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Bayer designation
A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.
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Beta Mensae
Beta Mensae, Latinized from β Mensae, is the third-brightest star in the constellation of Mensa.
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Beta Pictoris moving group
The Beta Pictoris Moving Group is a young moving group of stars located relatively near Earth.
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Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars, having masses between approximately 13 to 75–80 times that of Jupiter, or approximately to about.
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BY Draconis variable
BY Draconis variables are variable stars of late spectral types, usually K or M, and typically belong to the main sequence.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Cabo da Boa Esperança) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Celestial pole
The north and south celestial poles are the two imaginary points in the sky where the Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere.
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Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg
The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS; English translation: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center) is a data hub which collects and distributes astronomical information.
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Chamaeleon
Chamaeleon is a small constellation in the southern sky.
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space observatory launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999.
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Circumstellar disc
A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accumulation of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids or collision fragments in orbit around a star.
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Constellation
A constellation is a group of stars that are considered to form imaginary outlines or meaningful patterns on the celestial sphere, typically representing animals, mythological people or gods, mythological creatures, or manufactured devices.
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Constellation family
Constellation families are collections of constellations sharing some defining characteristic, such as proximity on the celestial sphere, common historical origin, or common mythological theme.
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Declination
In astronomy, declination (abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is one of the two angles that locate a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, the other being hour angle.
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Doppler spectroscopy
Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.
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Dorado
Dorado (English pronunciation) is a constellation in the southern sky.
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Equatorial coordinate system
The equatorial coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system widely used to specify the positions of celestial objects.
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Eta Mensae
Eta Mensae, Latinized from η Mensae, is the Bayer designation for a solitary, orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Mensa.
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Eugène Joseph Delporte
Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gamma Mensae
Gamma Mensae, Latinized from γ Mensae, is an orange-hued star system in the southern constellation of Mensa.
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Globular cluster
A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as a satellite.
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Glossary of astronomy
This page is a glossary of astronomy.
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HD 268835
HD 268835 (or R66) (30 SM) is one of two stars that were identified by NASA's Spitzer space telescope in the Milky Way's nearest neighbor galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (the other being R 126 or HD 37974), as being circled by monstrous dust disks that are theorised to be the origin of planets.
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HD 38283
HD 38283 is a 7th magnitude F-type main sequence star located approximately 125 light-years away in the constellation of Mensa.
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Hipparcos
Hipparcos was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993.
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Hydrus
Hydrus is a small constellation in the deep southern sky.
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Ian Ridpath
Ian William Ridpath (born 1 May 1947, Ilford, Essex) is an English science writer and broadcaster best known as a popularizer of astronomy and a biographer of constellation history.
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Infrared excess
An infrared excess is a measurement of an astronomical source, typically a star, that in their spectral energy distribution has a greater measured infrared flux than expected by assuming the star is a blackbody radiator.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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John Herschel
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint, and did botanical work.
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Jupiter mass
Jupiter mass, also called Jovian mass is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter.
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Keystone (architecture)
A keystone (also known as capstone) is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry arch, or the generally round one at the apex of a vault.
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Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Magellanic Clouds
The Magellanic Clouds (or Nubeculae Magellani) are two irregular dwarf galaxies visible in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere; they are members of the Local Group and are orbiting the Milky Way galaxy.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in astronomy and astrophysics.
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NGC 1987
NGC 1987 (also known as ESO 56-SC131) is an open cluster or a globular cluster located in the Mensa constellation and part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, (15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762) was a French astronomer.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Octans
Octans is a faint constellation located in the deep southern sky.
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Open cluster
An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age.
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Orbit
In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved trajectory of an object, such as the trajectory of a planet around a star or a natural satellite around a planet.
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Orbital eccentricity
The orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.
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Pi Mensae
Pi Mensae (π Men), also known as HD 39091, is a yellow dwarf star in the constellation of Mensa.
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Popular Astronomy (US magazine)
Popular Astronomy is an American magazine published by John August Media, LLC and hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com for amateur astronomers.
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Quasar
A quasar (also known as a QSO or quasi-stellar object) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN).
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R Coronae Borealis variable
An R Coronae Borealis variable (abbreviated RCB, R CrB) is an eruptive variable star that varies in luminosity in two modes, one low amplitude pulsation (a few tenths of a magnitude), and one irregular, unpredictably-sudden fading by 1 to 9 magnitudes.
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Radio astronomy
Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies.
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Redshift
In physics, redshift happens when light or other electromagnetic radiation from an object is increased in wavelength, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum.
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Right ascension
Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol) is the angular distance measured only eastward along the celestial equator from the Sun at the March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point above the earth in question.
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Satellite galaxy
A satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy (also known as the primary galaxy).
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Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad (or Sindbad) the Sailor (as-Sindibādu l-Baḥriyy) is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin.
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Sky & Telescope
Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following.
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Solar luminosity
The solar luminosity,, is a unit of radiant flux (power emitted in the form of photons) conventionally used by astronomers to measure the luminosity of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects in terms of the output of the Sun.
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Solar mass
The solar mass is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately.
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Solar radius
Solar radius is a unit of distance used to express the size of stars in astronomy.
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South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface.
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Southern celestial hemisphere
The Southern Celestial Hemisphere, or the Southern Sky, is the southern half of the celestial sphere, which appears to rotate around a polar axis due to Earth's rotation.
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Star cluster
Star clusters are groups of stars.
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Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics.
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Sub-brown dwarf
A sub-brown dwarf or planetary-mass brown dwarf is an astronomical object that formed in the same manner as stars and brown dwarfs (i.e. through the collapse of a gas cloud) but that has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium (about). Some researchers call them free-floating planets whereas others call them planetary-mass brown dwarfs.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Table (furniture)
A table is an item of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, used as a surface for working at, eating from or on which to place things.
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Table Mountain
Table Mountain (Khoekhoe: Huri ‡oaxa, where the sea rises; Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa.
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The Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references) is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society and currently published by IOP Publishing.
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Volans
Volans is a constellation in the southern sky.
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W Mensae
W Mensae (W Men) is an unusual yellow supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the southern constellation Mensa.
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Wavelength
In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
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WISE 0535−7500
WISE J053516.80−750024.9 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0535−7500) is either a sub-brown dwarf or a free planet.
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X-ray astronomy
X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X-ray observation and detection from astronomical objects.
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Zeta Mensae
Zeta Mensae, Latinized from ζ Mensae, is a solitary, white-hued star in the southern constellation of Mensa.
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20th parallel north
The 20th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 20 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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4th parallel north
The 4th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 4 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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5th parallel north
The 5th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 5 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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88 modern constellations
In modern astronomy, the sky (celestial sphere) is divided into 88 regions called constellations, generally based on the asterisms (which are also called "constellations") of Greek and Roman mythology.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_(constellation)
