"Its traditional name means ""breast"" and refers to its position in the constellation. Delta Cygni (the proper name is Fawaris) is another bright binary star in Cygnus, 171 light-years with a period of 800 years. The primary is a blue-white hued giant star of magnitude 2.9, and the secondary is a star of magnitude 6.6. The two components are divisible in a medium-sized amateur telescope. The fifth star in Cygnus above magnitude 3 is Aljanah, designated Epsilon Cygni. It is an orange-hued giant star of magnitude 2.5, 72 light-years from Earth. There are several other dimmer double and binary stars"
"is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. Deneb lies at one vertex of a widely spaced asterism called the Summer Triangle, the other two members of which are the zero-magnitude stars Vega in the constellation Lyra and Altair in Aquila. This formation is the approximate shape of a right triangle, with Deneb located at one of the acute angles. The Summer Triangle is recognizable in the northern skies for there are few other bright stars in its vicinity. Deneb is also easily spotted as the tip of the Northern Cross asterism made up of the brightest"
"notably Deneb Kaitos, the brightest star in the constellation of Cetus; Deneb Algedi, the brightest star in Capricornus; and Denebola, the second brightest star in Leo. All these stars are referring to the tail of the animals that their respective constellations represent. ""Denebadigege"" was used in the ""Alfonsine Tables"", other variants include ""Deneb Adige"", ""Denebedigege"" and ""Arided"". This latter name was derived from ""Al Ridhādh"", a name for the constellation. Johann Bayer called it ""Arrioph"", derived from ""Aridf"" and ""Al Ridf"", 'the hindmost' or ""Gallina"". German poet and author Philippus Caesius termed it ""Os rosae"", or ""Rosemund"" in German, or"
"Deneb appears to have a diameter of about over 200 times that of the Sun; if placed at the center of the Solar System, Deneb would extend out to the orbit of the Earth. It is one of the largest known white stars. Deneb is a bluish-white star of spectral type A2Ia, with a surface temperature of 8,500 kelvin. Since 1943, its spectrum has served as one of the stable references by which other stars are classified. It is the prototype of a class of variable stars known as Alpha Cygni variables. Its surface undergoes non-radial fluctuations which cause its"
"questions, although it will not measure Deneb itself. Deneb's absolute magnitude is currently estimated as −8.4, placing it among the most luminous stars known, with an estimated luminosity nearly 200,000 times that of the Sun. This is towards the upper end of various published values over the last few decades. Deneb is the most luminous of the stars with apparent magnitude brighter than 1.5, and the most distant, by a factor of almost 2, of the 30 brightest stars. Based on its temperature and luminosity, and also on direct measurements of its tiny angular diameter (a mere 0.002-second of arc),"
"luminous as the Sun, rivalling Rigel as the most inherently luminous star of first magnitude. ""α Cygni"" (Latinised to ""Alpha Cygni"") is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name ""Deneb"" is derived from the Arabic word for ""tail"", from the phrase ذنب الدجاجة ""Dhanab al-Dajājah"", or ""tail of the hen"". In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included ""Deneb"" for this star. It"
"Denebola Denebola, also designated Beta Leonis (β Leonis, abbreviated Beta Leo, β Leo) is the second-brightest star in the zodiac constellation of Leo, although the two components of the γ Leonis double star, which are unresolved to the naked eye, have a combined magnitude brighter than it. Denebola is an A-type main sequence star with 75% more mass than the Sun and 15 times the Sun's luminosity. Based on parallax measurements from the Hipparcos astrometry satellite, the star is at a distance of about from the Sun. Its apparent visual magnitude is 2.14, making it readily visible to the naked"
"Delta Cygni Delta Cygni (δ Cygni, abbreviated Delta Cyg, δ Cyg) is a binary star of a combined third-magnitude in the constellation of Cygnus. It is also part of the Northern Cross asterism whose brightest star is Deneb. Based upon parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, Delta Cygni is located roughly distant from the Sun. Delta Cygni's two components are designated Delta Cygni A (also named Fawaris) and B. More widely separated is a faint third component, a 12th magnitude star that is moving along with the others. Together they form a triple star system. ""δ Cygni"" (Latinised to"
"Alpha Leporis Alpha Leporis (α Leporis, abbreviated Alpha Lep, α Lep), also named Arneb, is the brightest star in the constellation of Lepus. ""Alpha Leporis"" is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name ""Arneb"" comes from the Arabic ""أرنب"" ""’arnab"" 'hare' ('Lepus' is Latin for hare). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included ""Arneb"" for this star. In Chinese, (), meaning ""Toilet"","
"Sea or the Water, consisting of many water-related constellations such as Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus. It is the smallest constellation in the zodiac. Capricornus is a faint constellation, with only one star above magnitude 3; its alpha star has a magnitude of only 3.6. The brightest star in Capricornus is δ Capricorni, also called Deneb Algedi, with a magnitude of 2.9, 39 light-years from Earth. Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for ""tail"" (""deneb""); its traditional name means ""the tail of the goat"". Deneb Algedi is a Beta Lyrae variable"
"to end its life in a spectacular stellar explosion known as a supernova. However, this is not expected to happen for another million years. USS Arneb (AKA-56) was a ship of the United States navy. \end{align}</math></ref> Alpha Leporis Alpha Leporis (α Leporis, abbreviated Alpha Lep, α Lep), also named Arneb, is the brightest star in the constellation of Lepus. ""Alpha Leporis"" is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name ""Arneb"" comes from the Arabic ""أرنب"" ""’arnab"" 'hare' ('Lepus' is Latin for hare). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize"
"Northern Cross (asterism) The Northern Cross is a prominent astronomical asterism in the northern hemisphere celestial sphere, corresponding closely with the constellation Cygnus The Swan. It is much larger than the more famous Southern Cross and consists of the brightest stars in Cygnus, Deneb, Sadr, Gienah, Delta Cygni and Albireo. The 'head' of the cross, Deneb, is also part of the Summer Triangle asterism. Like the Summer Triangle, the Northern Cross is a prominent indicator of the seasons. Near midnight, the Cross lies virtually overhead at mid-northern latitudes during the summer months; it can also be seen during spring in"
"Eta Ceti Eta Ceti (η Cet, η Ceti) is a star in the equatorial constellation of Cetus. It has the traditional name Deneb Algenubi or Algenudi. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +3.4, making it the fourth-brightest star in this otherwise relatively faint constellation. The distance to this star can be measured directly using the parallax technique, yielding a value of . This is a giant star with a stellar classification of K1 III, having exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence of stars like the Sun. (The classification is sometimes listed"
"identified. In astrology, Denebola was believed to portend misfortune and disgrace. Denebola Denebola, also designated Beta Leonis (β Leonis, abbreviated Beta Leo, β Leo) is the second-brightest star in the zodiac constellation of Leo, although the two components of the γ Leonis double star, which are unresolved to the naked eye, have a combined magnitude brighter than it. Denebola is an A-type main sequence star with 75% more mass than the Sun and 15 times the Sun's luminosity. Based on parallax measurements from the Hipparcos astrometry satellite, the star is at a distance of about from the Sun. Its apparent"
"from Earth. At magnitude 4.4, Beta Leonis Minoris is the second-brightest star and the only one in the constellation with a Bayer designation. It is a binary star, the brighter component of which is an orange giant and the fainter a yellow-white main sequence star. The third-brightest star is 21 Leonis Minoris, a rapidly rotating white main-sequence star of average magnitude 4.5. The constellation also includes two stars with planetary systems, two pairs of interacting galaxies, and the unique deep-sky object Hanny's Voorwerp. The classical astronomers Aratus and Ptolemy had noted the region of what is now Leo Minor to"
"story Deneb is a fairy who acts as chaperone when the lovers meet. The north pole of Mars points to the midpoint of the line connecting Deneb and the star Alderamin. USS ""Arided"" was a United States Navy ""Crater""-class cargo ship named after the star. The SS Deneb was an Italian merchant vessel that bore this name from 1951 until she was scrapped in 1966. The star Deneb, and hypothetical planets orbiting it, have been used many times in literature, film, electronic games, and music. Examples include several episodes of the ""Star Trek"" TV series, the ""Silver Surfer"" comic book,"
"More detailed analysis of the spectrum over time has not found any support for a companion. Deneb spent much of its early life as a O-type main-sequence star but it has now exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core and begun to cool and expand. Stars in the mass range of Deneb eventually expand to become the most luminous red supergiants, and within a few million years their cores will collapse producing a supernova explosion. It is now known that red supergiants up to a certain mass explode as the commonly seen type II-P supernovae, but more massive ones"
"the stable anchor points by which all other stars' spectra would be classified. There followed a hiatus of 30 years, until a cluster of works representing renewed interest in the star appeared around the year 1990. The items in this subsection all refer to works in the film, television, and print franchise originated by Gene Roddenberry. Deneb is referred to as a location in space or the center of a planetary system unusually often in fiction. For a list containing many stars and planetary systems that have a less extensive list of references, see Stars and planetary systems in fiction."
"Beta Delphini Beta Delphini (β Delphini, abbreviated Beta Del, β Del) is a binary star in the constellation of Delphinus. It is the brightest star in Delphinus. The two components are designated Beta Delphini A (also named Rotanev) and B. ""β Delphini"" (Latinised to ""Beta Delphini"") is the binary's Bayer designation. The designations of the two components as ""Beta Delphini A"" and ""B"" derive from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Beta Delpini bore an historical name, ""Rotanev"", which arose as follows: Niccolò Cacciatore was"
"DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 is a star system in the constellation of Cetus. It is located 64 light-years (19.8 parsecs) away, based on the system's parallax. It was first found in the Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky. This is a triple star system containing three brown dwarfs: objects that do not have enough mass to fuse hydrogen like stars. The two brightest components, designated A and B respectively, are both L-type objects. As of 2003, the two were separated 0.287° along a position angle of 246°. Component B was observed to elongated, suggesting a third component. This"
"Deneb in fiction The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in much science fiction. Deneb may be referred to in fictional works for its metaphorical (or mythological associations, or else as a bright point of light in the sky of the Earth, but not as a location in space or the center of a planetary system: In the listing below, the majority of literary references to Deneb occurred in the score of years after 1943, the star's banner year as a ""cynosure"" when its spectrum was selected as one of"
"Deneb in fiction The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in much science fiction. Deneb may be referred to in fictional works for its metaphorical (or mythological associations, or else as a bright point of light in the sky of the Earth, but not as a location in space or the center of a planetary system: In the listing below, the majority of literary references to Deneb occurred in the score of years after 1943, the star's banner year as a ""cynosure"" when its spectrum was selected as one of"
"Mu Normae μ Normae, Latinised as Mu Normae, is a blue supergiant star of spectral type O9.7 Iab in the constellation Norma. It is 339,000 times the luminosity of the sun and 40 times its mass. It varies in visual magnitude between 4.87 and 4.98, and is suspected of being an Alpha Cygni variable, which are named after the similar star Deneb. It is in the same direction and at the same distance as the faint open cluster NGC 6169, although it is brighter than the combined magnitude of all the other stars in the cluster. It was considered the"
"8106, HD 201834, or SAO 33185), which in turn is at R.A. Decl. . The top two stars in the Northern Cross, Sadr and Deneb, point to the north celestial pole of Mars. The pole is about halfway between Deneb and Alpha Cephei, less than 10° from the former, a bit more than the apparent distance between Sadr and Deneb. Because of its proximity to the pole, Deneb never sets in nearly all of Mars's northern hemisphere. Except in areas close to the equator, Deneb permanently circles the North pole. The orientation of Deneb and Sadr would make a useful"
"as K1.5 IIICN1Fe0.5, indicating a higher than normal abundance of cyanogen and iron relative to other stars of its class.) It is a red clump star that is generating energy through the nuclear fusion of helium at its core. Eta Ceti may have slightly more mass than the Sun and its outer envelope has expanded to 15 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 74 times as much luminosity as the Sun from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 4,356 K. This heat gives the star the orange-hued glow of a K-type star. The name ""Deneb Algenubi"" was"
"that has not yet grown hot enough to start fusion to carbon and oxygen. Convection has begun to dredge up the products of fusion but these are not visible at the surface. Post-red supergiant stars are expected to show those fusion products at the surface due to stronger convection during the red supergiant phase and due to loss of the obscuring outer layers of the star. Deneb is thought to be evolving redwards, although current models do not exactly reproduce the surface elements showing in its spectrum. Names similar to Deneb were given to at least seven different stars, most"
"a cluster of young massive stars about 5,000 light years away in Cygnus, and resides in a region of the Milky Way from which visible light is heavily absorbed by interstellar dust when viewed from Earth. The dust causes the star to be strongly reddened despite being an intrinsically hot and blue star, hence it has been extensively studied in the infra-red. Were it not for the dust extinction, the star would have a visual magnitude about 1.5, nearly as bright as Deneb (Alpha Cygni), but because of the dust the observed visual magnitude is 11.4 so that it requires"
"the North Star. Polaris, the brightest star in the constellation, is a yellow-white supergiant and the brightest Cepheid variable star in the night sky, ranging from an apparent magnitude of 1.97 to 2.00. Beta Ursae Minoris, also known as Kochab, is an aging star that has swollen and cooled to become an orange giant with an apparent magnitude of 2.08, only slightly fainter than Polaris. Kochab and magnitude 3 Gamma Ursae Minoris have been called the ""guardians of the pole star"". Planets have been detected orbiting four of the stars, including Kochab. The constellation also contains an isolated neutron star—Calvera—and"
"eye. Denebola is a suspected Delta Scuti type variable star, meaning its luminosity varies very slightly over a period of a few hours. ""β Leonis"" (Latinised to ""Beta Leonis"") is the star's Bayer designation. In Johann Bayer's ""Uranometria"" (1603), it was designated β (Beta) as the second-brightest star in the constellation. It also bears the Flamsteed designation of ""94 Leonis"" (assigned on the basis of increasing right ascension rather than luminosity) and additional designations followed as the star was recorded in subsequent star catalogues. The traditional name ""Denebola"" is shortened from ', from the Arabic phrase ' """" 'tail of"
"Delta Capricorni Delta Capricorni (δ Capricorni, abbreviated Del Cap, δ Cap) is a multiple star system approximately 39 light-years away in the constellation of Capricornus (the Sea Goat). The primary star in the system is a white giant and the combined light of its members makes it the brightest star within the constellation. The system consists of an eclipsing binary, designated Delta Capricorni A, and two companion stars, B and C. A's two components are themselves designated Delta Capricorni Aa (also named Deneb Algedi) and Ab. Because it is near the ecliptic, Delta Capricorni can be occulted by the Moon,"
"third component, named C, is a T-type object. It is separated about 1.9 astronomical units (au) from B, and based on a total mass of , the two may orbit each other every 8 years. DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 is a star system in the constellation of Cetus. It is located 64 light-years (19.8 parsecs) away, based on the system's parallax. It was first found in the Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky. This is a triple star system containing three brown dwarfs: objects that do not have enough mass to fuse hydrogen like stars. The two brightest"
"Epsilon Pegasi Epsilon Pegasi (ε Pegasi, abbreviated Epsilon Peg, ε Peg), also named Enif (EE-nif), is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Pegasus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 2.4, this is a second-magnitude star that is readily visible to the naked eye. The distance to this star can be estimated using parallax measurements from the Hipparcos astrometry satellite, yielding a value of around . ""ε Pegasi"" (Latinised to ""Epsilon Pegasi"") is the star's Bayer designation. It bore the traditional name ""Enif"" derived from the Arabic word for 'nose', due to its position as the muzzle of Pegasus."
"bright stars, the ""Denebola"" was named after Denebola, the third-brightest star in the constellation Leo. Conversion began on 22 November 1983 at Pennsylvania Shipbuilding in Chester, Pennsylvania. Her cargo hold was redesigned into a series of decks connected by ramps so vehicles can be driven into and out of the cargo hold for fast loading and unloading. She was also fitted with two sets of two cranes; one set located at midship capable of lifting 35 tons, and another set located aft capable of lifting 50 tons. She was delivered to the Military Sealift Command on 10 October 1985 as"