VW Cephei

id: vw-cephei-232-7756408
title: VW Cephei
text: VW Cephei is an eclipsing contact binary of W Ursae Majoris-type located roughly at 90.6 light years from the Sun, whose two component stars share a common outer layer. Because the two components share their outer layers, as the components of W Ursae Majoris do, they have the same stellar classification, and are classified as yellow G-type main sequence dwarfs. The components take 0.2783 days to revolve around a common barycentre. Orbital period variations suggest the presence of one more additi
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description: Star system in the constellation Cepheus
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Cephei
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date modified: 2023-05-22T03:09:51Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/VWCepLightCurve.png","width":1500,"height":975}
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