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Those are 11 and 12 Camelopardalis. They appear just 3′ apart on the sky. Through binoculars, 5th-magnitude 11 Cam shows a delicate blue-white hue, while 6th-magnitude 12 Cam appears orangish.
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Federico Vittorio Mantovani, taken from Valico di San Fermo, Genoa, Italy IC 342 is a relatively nearby galaxy, just 11 ...
Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis): The giraffe is an African mammal and is the tallest living land animal. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | ...
To find Camelopardalis, take a drive to the country for a night of winter stargazing. Be sure to bring binoculars because you'll also want to see Kemble's Cascade.
A new meteor shower called May Camelopardalis is expected to peak in the early-morning hours on Saturday, May 24, with some forecasters predicting more than 200 meteors every hour. The shower ...
Double stars 32 Camelopardalis and Zubenelgenubi (Alpha [α] Librae) Large telescope: Virgo A (M87) Large telescope: The Theoretician’s Planetary (IC 3568) Up Next Previous. Next.
But the modern giraffe – Giraffa camelopardalis – is often used as the textbook example of why Darwin and Wallace were right and Lamarck was wrong. The setup goes something like this. Photo by ...
Now, in its recent post, NASA shared a picture of the constellation Camelopardalis. The image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows outstretched arms of a large spiral galaxy about 100 ...
The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC 1961, sits about 190 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this ...
Z Camelopardalis (Z Cam) is one of the brightest dwarf novae in the sky. At a distance of 163 parsecs (ref. 10; 1 pc = 3.26 light yr = 3.086 × 10 16 m), it is also one of the 100 closest of the ...
On Wednesday, 'you can find the comet by looking south of the Big Dipper, near the constellation Camelopardalis,' says one of the astronomers who discovered it ...