Faint distant galaxies and the giant Miaplacidus (Geoff Healey)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: NGC 2822 · NGC 2836 · The star Miaplacidus (β Car)

Faint distant galaxies and the giant Miaplacidus, Geoff Healey

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Faint distant galaxies and the giant Miaplacidus

Miaplacidus, Beta Carinae (β Car), is a blue-white giant star located in the constellation Carina. With an apparent magnitude of 1.69, it is the second brightest star in the constellation, after Canopus. It is one of the four stars that form the Diamond Cross, a prominent southern asterism sometimes mistaken for the Southern Cross. Beta Carinae lies at a distance of 113.2 light years from Earth. Miaplacidus has a mass 3.5 times that of the Sun and, as it evolved away from the main sequence, it has expanded to a size of 6.8 solar radii. With a surface temperature of 8,866 K, it is 288 times more luminous than the Sun. The star is a fast spinner, with a projected rotational velocity of 145.7 km/s. Courtesy WIKI The nearby galaxy is NGC2822. I cant find much information on it other than its a type 3 elliptical and lies around 76 million light years from us. Lower down is NGC2836 a spiral galaxy classified as Spiral (SAbc) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. It lies around 67.2 million light years from us.

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