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CENTAURUS (" T11 CENTAUR ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 669 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CENTAURUS (" T11 CENTAUR ") , in See also:astronomy, a See also:constellation of the See also:southern hemisphere, mentioned by See also:Eudoxus (4th See also:century B.C.) and See also:Aratus (3rd century B.C.), See also:Ptolemy catalogued See also:thirty-seven stars in it. a-Centauri is a splendid binary See also:star. Its components are of the 1st magnitude, and revolve in a See also:period of eighty-one years; and since its See also:parallax is 0'75", it is the nearest star to the See also:earth; w-Centauri, the finest globular star-cluster in the heavens, consists of about 6000 stars in a space of about 20' See also:diameter, of which about 125 variables have been examined. Nova Centauri, a " new " star, was discovered in 1895 by Mrs See also:Fleming in photographs taken at Harvard.

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