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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Cepheus used when naming stars, such as α Cephei.
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Cephei A is a supergiant that is currently the second largest star in the Milky Way Galaxy.
365 tomorrows » The Vortex of Youth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Cephei A is a supergiant that is currently the second largest star in the Milky Way Galaxy.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Cephei A and Cephei B are eclipsing binary stars that are located approximately 3,000 light years from Earth.
365 tomorrows » The Vortex of Youth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Cephei A and Cephei B are eclipsing binary stars that are located approximately 3,000 light years from Earth.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Not really, but its celestial pole, located at 21.18 hours right ascension, 52.89° north declination, is still pretty easy to find, as it lies almost exactly halfway between the two bright stars Deneb and Alpha Cephei.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Not really, but its celestial pole, located at 21.18 hours right ascension, 52.89° north declination, is still pretty easy to find, as it lies almost exactly halfway between the two bright stars Deneb and Alpha Cephei.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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“Planet surface was cleansed of alien life-forms; later relocated to orbit around gamma Cephei prior to resettlement by approved species.”
Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993
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The pole star lies nearly in a line joining the brighter stars [alpha] Cephei and
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
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In beta Cephei, an early Class B star, the components are so close that they revolve around each other in 4 1/2 hours; many systems have periods in the neighborhood of a day, of two days, of three days, and so on.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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In Cephei, an early Class B star, the components are so close that they revolve around each other in 4 1/2 hours; many systems have periods in the neighborhood of a day, of two days, of three days, and so on.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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