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Capella, designated Alpha Aurigae, is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. Located roughly 43 light-years from Earth, it is actually a quadruple star system composed of two sets of binary stars. The two largest stars in the syst...
The imperial moth, Eacles imperialis, is a large saturniid moth native to North America, occurring principally in the eastern and southern parts of the continent. Adults are predominantly yellow with highly variable purple, reddish-brown, or purplish markings, and females are generally larger than m...
Vindemiatrix is the traditional name of Epsilon Virginis, a prominent star in the constellation Virgo located roughly 110 light-years from the Sun. It is an evolved G-type giant that has exhausted the hydrogen in its core and expanded beyond the main-sequence stage occupied by the Sun. The name deri...
Algedi, or Alpha Capricorni, is a naked-eye optical double star in the constellation Capricornus. Its two principal components appear close together from Earth, but they are separate stellar systems whose apparent pairing results from alignment along the line of sight rather than a shared orbit. The...
Nekkar, designated Beta Boötis, is a yellow giant star in the northern constellation Boötes. Its name comes from an Arabic term associated with the herdsman, and in the modern constellation it marks the head of Boötes. With an apparent visual magnitude of about 3.5, it is visible to the naked eye un...
Kitalpha is the traditional name of Alpha Equulei, a spectroscopic binary star system in the constellation Equuleus. Its combined light appears as a yellow, G-type giant to observers, while the system includes a smaller companion that is not separately visible to the unaided eye. With an apparent ma...
