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  2. List of brightest stars - Wikipedia

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    This basic list is a catalog of what Wikipedia itself documents. References can be found in the individual articles. ... α Aur 43 K0 III, G1 III Northern 7 0.13 (0. ...

  3. Epsilon Aurigae - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Aurigae (ε Aurigae, abbreviated Epsilon Aur, ε Aur) is a multiple star system in the northern constellation of Auriga, the charioteer.It is an unusual eclipsing binary system comprising an F0 supergiant (officially named Almaaz / æ l ˈ m ɑː z /, the traditional name for the system) and a companion which is generally accepted to be a huge dark disk orbiting an unknown object ...

  4. AB Aurigae - Wikipedia

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    AB Aur, BD+30° 741, HD 31293, HIP 22910, SAO 57506 [11] Database references; SIMBAD: data: AB Aurigae is a young Herbig Ae star [3] in the Auriga constellation.

  5. Capella - Wikipedia

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    Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has the Bayer designation α Aurigae, which is Latinised to Alpha Aurigae and abbreviated Alpha Aur or α Aur. Capella is the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega.

  6. 16 Aurigae - Wikipedia

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    16 Aurigae is a triple star [12] system located 232 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga.It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.547, [13] and is located about 2/3 of the way from Capella toward Beta Tauri.

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  8. Protoplanet - Wikipedia

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    Another protoplanet, AB Aur b, may be in the earliest observed stage of formation for a gas giant. It is located in the gas disk of the star AB Aurigae. AB Aur b is among the largest exoplanets identified, and has a distant orbit, three times as far as Neptune is from the Earth's sun.

  9. List of nearest stars - Wikipedia

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    Animated 3D map of the nearest stars, centered on the Sun. 3D red green glasses are recommended to view this image correctly. A radar map of the distances ( ) and positions ( ) of all known stellar bodies or systems within 9 light years (ly) (for within 12 ly see this map).