W Canis Majoris
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w-canis-majoris-190-1798700
title:
W Canis Majoris
text:
W Canis Majoris is a carbon star in the constellation Canis Major. A cool star, it has a surface temperature of around 2,900 K and a radius 234 times that of the Sun, with a bolometric absolute magnitude of −4.13 and distance estimated at 443 or 445 parsecs based on bolometric magnitude or radius. The Gaia Data Release 2 parallax of 1.8049±0.1454 milliarcseconds implies a distance of about 555 parsecs. W CMa is classified as a slow irregular variable star. Detailed analyses have found only very
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Star in the constellation Canis Major
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Canis_Majoris
date created:
2013-08-12T19:20:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:37:58Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q14914801","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14914801"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/WCMaLightCurve.png","width":1500,"height":975}
fields total:
13
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16