DELTA TAURI PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Christabel Donatienne Ruby | 148 pages | 04 Nov 2011 | Fidel | 9786138189800 | English | United States Delta3 Tauri - Wikipedia The primary component in the system is a triple star. The brightest component is a bluish class B7IIIe giant star with a mass between 5. With an effective temperature of 12, K, the star is 2, times more luminous than the Sun, but most of its output is in the invisible ultraviolet part of the spectrum. As a result, it is surrounded by a disk of gas ejected around the equator. The nearest companion is a low-mass star separated by less than 1 milliarcsecond from the primary. The two components orbit each other with a period of a little over four days. The other companion is located at a separation of 0. It is half as massive as the primary. The two have an orbital period of about days. Alcyone is the brightest member of the Pleiades open cluster. The Pleiades open cluster contains more than 1, confirmed members and has a total mass of solar masses. The brightest members are hot blue stars of the spectral type B with an estimated age of up to million years. They lie at an average distance of light years from Earth. Catalogued as Messier 45 by the French astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier, the cluster is exceptionally bright and large, occupying an area of arcminutes. It has an apparent magnitude of 1. Up to 14 members are visible without binoculars in exceptionally good conditions, but observers normally see six to eight stars. The members will likely keep travelling together through space for another million years and then gradually disperse as a result of gravitational interaction with the interstellar medium. In Greek mythology, the Pleiades caught the eye of Orion, the hunter. After their father Atlas was condemned to carry the heavens on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue the sisters. Zeus intervened, transforming the sisters first into doves and later into stars. The constellation Orion still appears to be pursuing the Pleiades across the sky. The Pleiades have been a familiar feature of the night sky in cultures around the world. The earliest discovered depiction of the cluster is the Nebra sky disk, a Bronze Age artifact found in Germany that dates back to around BCE. The first astronomer to observe the Pleiades through a telescope was Galileo Galilei, who discovered that the cluster contained many other stars too faint to be visible to the naked eye. Galilei published his notes along with a sketch in March Today, the Japanese know the Pleiades as Subaru. Theta 1 is a magnitude 3. Delta Tauri is actually a triple star with Delta 1 having a magnitude of 3. All three are easily resolved with Delta 1 and Delta 2 being separated by If you like the information you have read here, I have several books that you may find of interest. 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It was so bright that it was viewable during the day and witnessed by Chinese astronomers, who kept meticulous records of the 'guest star'. The scientific star names are simple to understand if you know your Greek alphabet. The next brightest is 'beta Tauri', and so on. Combined with the genitive name, this is known as the ' Bayer designation '. Some are named stars, like alpha Tauri is Aldebaran. Other stars are known by their catalogue number. The gravitational pull is such that there is no escape for either of them and they will continue to bump and grind until they eventually become one huge galaxy. There is an annual meteor shower called the Taurids , so named because they appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus. Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through the debris path left by the tail of a comet , in this case comet Encke. As the peak happens around the end of October, they are sometimes known as Hallowe'en fireballs. Some extrasolar planets have been discovered in orbit around stars which make up the constellation Taurus. Gliese also catalogued HD is a red dwarf star approximately 31 light years distant. An exciting find in was a 'Super Earth' planet orbiting this star. Such planets are terrestrial like the Earth, rather than the gas giants which seem more common. HD is a yellow dwarf not unlike our own Sun. The system boasts three extrasolar planets , all gas giants. The width of the so-called ' Goldilocks Zone ' is estimated to be between 0. One of these, planet b, resides just inside the habitable zone , and planet d orbits just outside the extreme limit. Planet c is much further out; the reason the letters are not in order of distance from the star is because they are catalogued when discovered, and planet d was detected later than planet c. Figures given in the table below are the length of the planet's orbital period around its parent star, which we know of as a year. The mass of the extrasolar planet is compared to that of Jupiter , our Solar System's largest planet; this is known by astronomers as the 'Jovian scale'. Jupiter's mass is more than times that of Earth's. Taurus represents the white bull who fell in love with a beautiful mortal, Europa 9 , Phoenician princess of Tyre, daughter of King Agenor of Sidon. The white bull was, of course, Jupiter Zeus , king of the gods, in one of his disguises. Attracted to the magnificent creature, Europa decorates his horns with a garland of flowers and cannot resist straddling him for a ride. The bull then carries her off across the waters to the continent which still bears her name. She resists his amorous attentions, so to have his wicked way , Jupiter has to resort to rape According to some interpretations, their third son became King Minos of Crete. The Minoan people were really into bull-worship. The intention was to hide inside and fool the bull into coupling with her. The plan worked and the result of the mating was the Minotaur , a monster which was part-man, part-bull. Daedalus was then given the job of designing a labyrinth in which to imprison the Minotaur, by King Minos. Around BC the Minoan people who created the stories of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth vanished, possibly wiped out by a tsunami following a volcanic eruption. According to Greek mythology, Pleione 28 Tau was the wife of Atlas the god who carried the heavens upon his shoulders. When the seven sisters 11 complained that they were being pursued by Orion the hunter, the gods changed them into stars and they became the Pleiades. Follow him on Twitter: rosswilkers. Also connect with him on LinkedIn. Printable Format. E-Mail this page.