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| Gamma Velorum comparison table | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Subject | has right ascension | has declination | has spectral type | is part of | has orbital period | is an instance of | has V magnitude | has been observ | has B-V magnitude | has distance | has ejection velocity | has temperature | has abundance | is usually part of | has absolute magnitude | is a kind of | has apparent magnitude | has emission line | has synonym | has definition | has number of star |
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| naked eye star | Milky Way | for many centuries | asterism | naked eye object | brighter than 5 | A star visible without visual aids | |||||||||||||||
| triple star | half the stars in the solar neighborhood are members of star systems | star system | A star system having three stars that revolve around one another. | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| WC star | O, B, A, and early F | 2000 km s-1 | up to 50000 K | Wolf-Rayet | He I, He II, C II, C III or C IV | ||||||||||||||||
| Gamma Velorum | 8 9 31.9 | -47 20 12 | WC8+O7.5e | Milky Way | 78.5 days | triple star | 1.78 | for many centuries | -0.22 | 400 pc | 2000 km s-1 | up to 50000 K | half the stars in the solar neighborhood are members of star systems | asterism | Mv = - 5.6 | brighter than 5 | He I, He II, C II, C III or C IV | HR 3207 | A triple system (WC8, B1 IV, O9 I) embedded in the Gum Nebula. It is the brightest Wolf-Rayet star in the sky. | 3 |
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