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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Scutum used when naming stars, such as α Scuti.
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Examples
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Rob Kaufman recently captured a Nova outburst Nova Scuti 2009 V496 SCT between the trees and clouds from his back yard.
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Though it is rare for delta Scuti stars to produce planets at all.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Though it is rare for delta Scuti stars to produce planets at all.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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It had no planets—just an asteroid belt about 14 AU out—and its only other claim to fame was its classification as a star of the delta Scuti type, a variable with a difference.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Though it is rare for delta Scuti stars to produce planets at all.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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It had no planets—just an asteroid belt about 14 AU out—and its only other claim to fame was its classification as a star of the delta Scuti type, a variable with a difference.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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It had no planets—just an asteroid belt about 14 AU out—and its only other claim to fame was its classification as a star of the delta Scuti type, a variable with a difference.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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The starlight was in fact so bright that the leaves blocking it out cast clear sharp shadows on the leaf-strewn ground—for this was a forest that grew on a world at the heart of the great R Scuti Cluster, where stars shone even in the daytime, and the night sky was a jewelled tapestry thick with slowly-pulsing regular variables and novae, all huge and close.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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The starlight was in fact so bright that the leaves blocking it out cast clear sharp shadows on the leaf-strewn ground—for this was a forest that grew on a world at the heart of the great R Scuti Cluster, where stars shone even in the daytime, and the night sky was a jewelled tapestry thick with slowly-pulsing regular variables and novae, all huge and close.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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The starlight was in fact so bright that the leaves blocking it out cast clear sharp shadows on the leaf-strewn ground—for this was a forest that grew on a world at the heart of the great R Scuti Cluster, where stars shone even in the daytime, and the night sky was a jewelled tapestry thick with slowly-pulsing regular variables and novae, all huge and close.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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