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	The Brightest Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		, Rigel is the brightest star in Orion.
		Altair is the brightest star Aquila a constellation stradling the equator.
		The altitude of the star at transit depends on the latitude of the observer and the star's declination.
	www.faster.co.nz /~rasnz/Stars/BrightStars.htm (4073 words)

	Major Stars and Star Systems - Zoom Astronomy
		Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus (it is one of the bull's eyes) and is the 13th brightest star in the sky.
		(Alpha Boötis) Arcturus is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes (the herdsman).
		Rigel (beta Orionis) is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and one of the brightest stars in the sky.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/stars/majorstars.shtml (1303 words)

	ESA - Space Science - Extreme space - Pistol star, one of our Galaxy's brightest stars
		One of the intrinsically brightest stars in our Galaxy appears as the bright white dot in the centre of this image.
		Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) took the picture, because the star is hidden at the galactic centre, behind obscuring dust.
		NICMOS' infrared vision penetrated the dust to reveal the star, which is glowing with the radiance of 10 million suns.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEM57WZO4HD_extreme_3.html (88 words)

	Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Achernar is the ninth brightest star in the sky and one of the
		Aldebaran is the 13th brightest star in the sky, and one of the 57 stars of celestial navigation.It is the brightest star in the
		Bellatrix is the 25th brightest in the star in the sky and one of the 57 stars of celestial navigation.
	www.lamarrp.com /starinfo.htm (367 words)

	List of brightest stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Stars and Constellations Brief information on both stars and constellations, including the sun.
		The Fifty Brightest Stars The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth.
		Life and Birth of Stars The physical structure of stars, energy generation, mathematical models, main-sequence stars and the birth of stars.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-List_of_brightest_stars.html (400 words)

	Well known Stars And Constellations
		Polaris is the brightest star in the Ursa Minor.
		It is the nearest to the north star among the 21 brightest.
		Early in May, the star Vega rises at the same time that the sun sets and all summer long it is one of the brightest stars in the sky overhead between 9 and 10 O'clock in the evening.
	www2.potsdam.edu /islamma/Phys335Constellations.htm (5409 words)

	Deneb -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		one of the brightest stars, with an apparent magnitude of 1.26.
		the alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation Cepheus.
		the alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation of Aquila.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9029926 (399 words)

	stars, brightest
		Stars that appear brightest in the night sky do so for one or both of two reasons.
		Without exception, every one of the 50 brightest stars in the night sky is intrinsically brighter than the Sun (although in the case of Alpha Centauri, the nearest bright star of all, the difference is not great).
		The most intrinsically luminous stars known are hypergiants such as Eta Carinae, Rho Cassiopeiae, and the Pistol Star.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/starsbrightest.html (175 words)

	Cool Cosmos
		Infrared observations have led to the discovery of a large number of stars which are too cool to be detected by their visible light or are hidden behind obscuring dust.
		This star, which is 10 million times more radiant than our Sun, was discovered in the center of our galaxy where it was hidden from visible light telescopes by thick dust.
		The image to the left shows a "spiral" star which was discovered in the infrared.
	coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu /cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/stars.html (463 words)

	Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Since it is only 36 light-years away (close for a star!), it appears as the brightest star in Bootes, and, in fact, the fourth brightest star in the sky.
		There is a cluster of stars near the foot of the twin on the right, and a nebula near the arm of the twin on the left.
		One of Orion's legs is represented by the bright star Rigel, one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
	www.astro-tom.com /getting_started/mythology.htm (5050 words)

	The Hottest Stars are Here Tonight
		Rigel is one of the brightest stars in the sky, as seen from Earth, and would be larger than the orbit of the planet Mars, were it to suddenly replace our Sun at the center of our solar system.
		Stars are classified by letters; the most massive stars are called O class stars.
		A white dwarf is a star with the mass of the Sun, but only having a size about that of the Earth, and held from further collapse by the repulsion of the electrons inside the star.
	www.tmclark.com /Starwatch/4_05_99.html (894 words)

	ASTRONOMY: STARS WITH ARABIC NAMES - Forums powered by UBBThreads™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Deneb the brightest star in constellation Cygnus and one of the brightest in the sky.
		Aldebaran is the brightest star in constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars (14th) in the nighttime sky.
		Altair is the brightest star in constellation Aquilla and the 12th brightest star in the sky.
	uplink.space.com /showflat.php?Board=sciastro&Number=452850 (1633 words)

	eSky: Spica
		The star it refers to is a bright and hot blue star more than 260 light years (about 80 parsecs) from the Earth.
		In fact, Spica is a binary star, and is circled by an invisible companion, causing its brightness to vary slightly every four days.
		The blue star Spica is Virgo's brightest by far, and one of the brightest stars in the entire sky.
	www.glyphweb.com /esky/stars/spica.html (219 words)

	SPACE.com -- The 10 Brightest Stars
		The brightest stars he could see were classified as first magnitude and the faintest were sixth magnitude.
		All the stars are drawn on the inside of this sphere, even though stars of course exist in space at varying distances.
		Follow the three belt stars -- obvious targets even for casual skywatchers -- 20 degrees southeast to the brightest star in the sky.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/brightest_stars_030715-1.html (928 words)

	Sky Shows of Vermont -- PLANETARIUM PROGRAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The stars of spring are drifting to the west, not to be seen again until next year: Regulus, heart of Leo, yellow Arcturus, blue-white Spica.
		This triangle of bright stars formed by brilliant Vega, Deneb to the north, and Altair to the south is the Summer Triangle.
		Stars are pretty far away, and Deneb is one of the furthest we can see as a bright star.
	www.sover.net /~skyshows/summertri.html (295 words)

	Leo - The Lion
		This star is one of the brightest stars in the spring sky.
		Leo's brightest star, Regulus (Latin for "little king") is one of the brightest stars in the spring.
		Leo's brightest star, Regulus (Latin for "little king") is one of the brightest stars in the spring sky with a magnitude of 1.4.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /the_universe/Constellations/spring/old/leo.html (687 words)

	The Ghost of Many Sisters
		Like a flashlight beam shining off the wall of a cave, the star is reflecting light off the surface of pitch fl clouds of cold gas laced with dust.
		Thus, as the cloud approaches the star, there is a sifting of particles by size, much like grain thrown in the air to separate wheat from chaff.
		The nearly straight lines pointing toward Merope are thus streams of larger particles, continuing on toward the star while the smaller decelerated particles are left behind at the lower left of the picture.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/stellar-00k.html (598 words)

	NASA's Observatorium Image Gallery -- Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The blueness of the stars indicates that it is a very young cluster, probably less than 100 million years old.
		One of the brightest stars in our galaxy appears as the bright white dot in the center of this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
		The star is 25,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
	observe.arc.nasa.gov /nasa/gallery/image_gallery/universe/universe_stars.html (428 words)

	One of sky's biggest stars experiencing series of eruptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		One of the brightest and biggest stars in the heavens is going through a series of eruptions and dimming that may lead eventually to a supernova explosion, astronomers say.
		Over a 200-day period, the star became brighter by 20 percent, a flare that made it one of the brightest stars in the universe, and then it dimmed, dropping in brightness by two magnitudes.
		This star formation is marked by a 'W' shaped arrangements of stars and Rho Cas is in one of the arms of the figure.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/07/national1907EST0834.DTL (522 words)

	SkyEye - Brightest Stars
		The smaller the magnitude is, the brighter the star.
		Thus, a star of magnitude -1 is brighter than one of magnitude +1 which in turn is brighter than one of magnitude +6.
		Therefore, a star that appears to be very bright in the sky may be very close but intrinsically dim, or very far away and intrinsically bright.
	www.obliquity.com /skyeye/misc/bright.html (361 words)

	APOD Search Results for "carina"
		The stars in the cluster were formed in a single "burst" of star formation only one or two million years ago, so the x-rays are believed to come from the massive young stars themselves or from their energetic stellar winds.
		Since other common galactic sources of x-rays such as supernova remnants and neutron stars represent final stages in the life of a massive star, they are unlikely to be present in such a young cluster.
		The star Eta Carinae itself is extremely variable and has faded in a mere 150 years - formerly one of the brightest in the sky it is now invisible without a telescope.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?carina (2939 words)

	Brightest Stars
		The following list contains the 100 brightest stars as seen from the earth at night.
		The designations consist of a Greek letter followed by the genitive (possessive) form of the constellation name that the star is found in.
		They were generally named starting with the brightest star and continuing to the dimmest of any given constellation.
	www.pa.msu.edu /people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/brightest_stars.htm (158 words)

	Rigel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Rigel, or Beta Ori, is the brightest star in the constellation Orion.
		Stars are ordinarily classified by magnitudes, in the order of their brightness.
		Astronomers have found that the size of stars depends to a considerable extent upon the fact that stars seem to be born, mature, grow old, and die.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9063675 (474 words)

	New evidence for Solar-like planetary system around nearby star
		Vega is the fifth brightest star in the sky and the third brightest visible in the Northern hemisphere.
		The star is barely noticeable and is located at the centre of the image, mid-way between the two clumps.
		The distance between the star and the planet is equivalent to twice that between the Sun and Neptune.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-12/ppa-nef112803.php (1224 words)

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		For readers who live where stars are visible in the night sky, this will inspire a trip outside in every season; for those who live where pollution and ambient light make star-viewing difficult, the color photographs will provide a nearly satisfying substitute.
		While variables, double stars, nebulae, and clusters are listed, the description is not limited to the specifics of the constellation, but rather explores what can be said about the constellation as a whole as well.
		The number of stars in each photo is truly astonishing (overwhelming even); but the important stars (the ones that comprise the constellations) are labeled clearly for the amateur observer.
	www.kencroswell.com /seethestars.html (5535 words)

	Antares - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Antares (α Sco / α Scorpii / Alpha Scorpii) is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.
		This distinctive coloration has made the star an object of interest to many societies throughout history, and many of the old Egyptian temples are oriented so that the light of Antares plays a role in the ceremonies performed there.
		Antares was one of the four "royal stars" of the Persians around 3000 BC, and some writers claim that it is the "lance star" referred to in the Biblical book of Job.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Antares (458 words)

	The 50 Brightest Stars Cosmobrain Bright Star Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is intended for use as a source of some basic astronomical and astrophysical data for the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth.
		For each star, this table contains the proper name, Bayer and/or Flamsteed name, visual apparent magnitude, distance in light years, accuracy of the distance in per cent, absolute magnitude, spectral types, equatorial coordinates for J2000.0 and Hipparcos catalog number.
		Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, visible in the constellation of the Big Dog.
	www.cosmobrain.com /cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html (203 words)

	SPACE.com -- Saturn-Like Planet Found, You Can Spot the Star it Orbits
		The star, Fomalhaut, is the 17th brightest and easily found with the unaided eye.
		It is a relatively young star, still shrouded in the dust of its birth.
		In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques for examining the debris around young stars by studying the infrared radiation emitted by the dust.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/new_planet_021010.html (1108 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Earth-like solar system found surrounding Vega
		U.K. astronomers say they have found evidence that Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is surrounded by a planetary system that resembles Earth's solar system more than any other so far discovered.
		Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, is about 25 light-years, or 147 trillion miles, from the sun.
		About a hundred planets found orbiting other stars have been Jupiter-like gas giants relatively close to their own stars and so large they may have swept up debris that would endanger smaller planets with life-bearing potential.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,565035871,00.html (281 words)

	Inner Tapestry 25 - Sirius the Dog Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sirius is actually a binary, or perhaps even a triple star, an insight that would seemingly have been unavailable to the ancients; but many texts and traditions support that humans have long known about this quality of our summer messenger.
		In Egypt, Sirius shines for most of the summer, and since it the brightest star, the Egyptians actually believed that the additional light from this nearby star was responsible for the summer heat.
		This star descends from heaven to him and is described as having a very 'potent essence' and being "the God of heaven".
	whitestarastrology.com /articles/innertapestry25.shtml (1182 words)

	DIGIDAY: Star Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Spica actually consists of more than one star, but only one is bright enough to see without a telescope.
		Both measurements are called magnitudes, and the lower the number, the brighter the star.
		Star Date is made possible in part by a grant from NASA.
	www.visionx.com /dd/main/star19980604.htm (292 words)

	Astronomers discover the wake of a planet around a nearby star
		It has already found young nurseries where stars are being born and has discovered distant galaxies near the edge of the Universe.
		The position of the star is indicated by the "star" symbol.
		The star is surrounded by a vast disk of cold dust.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-10/ppa-adt101002.php (1259 words)

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