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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Lepus used when naming stars, such as α Leporis.
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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer have released images of a double star in the Orion Nebula's Trapezium and an expanding shell of gas around another star, T Leporis.
Archive 2009-02-25 Nicole 2009
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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer have released images of a double star in the Orion Nebula's Trapezium and an expanding shell of gas around another star, T Leporis.
First Stellar Images Nicole 2009
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It culminates Jan. 24th. α _Leporis_ is sometimes called Arsh. ARKAB (är´-kab), β _Sagittarii_, "the tendon uniting the calf of the leg to the heel."
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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ARNEB (är´-neb), α _Leporis_, "the hare," the Arab name for the constellation.
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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Rigel, in Orion, to β Leporis, and prolonged as far again, ends near α and β, the two brightest stars in Columba.
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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The star [kappa] Leporis is a rather close double, white with a small green companion.
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Photoelectric photometry of very short period eclipsing binary systems and their light curve solutions Synthetic Light Curve Analysis of the Close Binary Systems BX Andromedae and RR Leporis No sign of gravitational lensing in the cosmic microwave background
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