Each star has its own story. Not just the mythological stories with Greek gods acting like humanic plebs and making pictures in the sky, but the story of its own creation, and what it’s up to now.
This page briefly summarises what I learn about each celestial object I come across as I observe – or fail to observe! Naturally this isn’t an exhaustive list or compendium of stellar information! (you may as well go straight to wikipedia where I get most of my info.! 😉
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Albireo
Blue and yellow binary star system of Albireo. The brighter yellow star is a trinary star system (in this case a binary with an orbiting low mass star). In just shy of 4 million years, it will become the brightest star in the sky! Source: wikipedia.
Procyon
12 light years distant from Earth, Procyon is another ‘close’ neighbour to us. Like Sirius, it has a white dwarf binary star which orbits at a distance about the same as the Sun to Uranus. Source: wikipedia.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant about 500 light years away, with a radius around 700 times that of the sun, but only 15 times its mass. It’s 10 million years old and expected to go supernova within 100,000 years – astronomically speaking this is fairly soon! Source: wikipedia.
Sirius
Brightest star in the northern hemisphere (because it’s both bright and close (9 light years)). In 60,000 years it will become the southern pole star due to the Earth’s axial precession and Sirius’ own motion. It has a white dwarf binary companion (“Sirius B”) which was originally more massive than Sirius (A) and evolved into a red giant before collapsing into a white dwarf. Source: wikipedia.