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Fomalhaut


Fo·mal·haut

F0230100 (fō′məl-hôt′)n. The brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, 24 light years from Earth.
[Arabic fam al-ḥūt, mouth of the fish, Fomalhaut : fam, mouth; see p in Semitic roots + al-, the + ḥūt, fish.]

Fomalhaut

(ˈfəʊməˌləʊt) n (Astronomy) the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, possessing a protoplanetary disc. Distance: 25 light years. Spectral type A3V[C16: from Arabic fum'l-hūt mouth of the fish, referring to its position in the constellation]

Fomalhaut


Fomalhaut

(fō`məlhôt'), brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (southern fish); Bayer designation Alpha Piscis Austrini; 1992 position R.A. 22h57.3m, Dec. −29°39'. A white, main-sequence star of spectral classspectral class,
in astronomy, a classification of the stars by their spectrum and luminosity. In 1885, E. C. Pickering began the first extensive attempt to classify the stars spectroscopically.
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 A3 V, its apparent magnitudemagnitude,
in astronomy, measure of the brightness of a star or other celestial object. The stars cataloged by Ptolemy (2d cent. A.D.), all visible with the unaided eye, were ranked on a brightness scale such that the brightest stars were of 1st magnitude and the dimmest stars
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 of 1.16 makes it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Fomalhaut is one of the nearer bright stars, lying at a distance of 25 light-years. The star, also known as Fomalhaut A, is part of a triple-star system. Images made in 2004 and 2006 by the Hubble Space Telescope were believed to show a planet orbiting the star, but subsequent study has questioned that interpretation. The star's name is from the Arabic meaning "mouth of the southern fish."

Fomalhaut

(foh -măl-hawt) (α PsA) A white star that is the brightest in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. In 1983 the infrared satellite IRAS detected a shell of cool matter surrounding this star. The shell, which has a temperature of about 50 K, is thought to be solid material orbiting the star and forming a protoplanetary system. See also Vega. mv : 1.16; Mv : 2.0; spectral type: A3 V; distance: 6.7 pc.

Fomalhaut

 

(also a Piscis Austrinus), the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. With a visual stellar magnitude of 1.2, Fomalhaut is 14 times brighter than the sun. It is located at a distance of seven parsecs from the sun.

Fomalhaut

[′fō·mə‚lȯt] (astronomy) α Piscis Australis
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