Kappa Ursae Majoris (? UMa / ? Ursae Majoris) is a binary star
Binary star
A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their commo
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Kappa Ursae Majoris (? UMa / ? Ursae Majoris) is a binary star
Binary star
A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star or secondary.... in the constellation
Constellation
A constellation is a group of stars that appear to have a physical proximity in the sky. The stars in a constellation are often vastly distant from each other, but they appear close to each other from the perspective of Earth.... Ursa Major
Ursa Major
Ursa Major is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere. Its name means the Great Bear in Latin. It is dominated by the widely recognized asterism known as the Big Dipper or Plough, which is a useful pointer toward north, and which has mythological significance in numerous world cultures.... . It is approximately 423 light years
Light Years
Light Years is the seventh album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and was released in 2000. It reached number two in the United Kingdom and one on the Australian album charts.... from Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather... and has the traditional names Talitha Australis, Al Kaprah, and Alphikra Australis.
Both components of the binary star are a white A-type
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on its spectrum characteristics. The spectral class of a star, is a designation of a class to a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excited states are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure of the temperature in this chr... main sequence dwarfs
Main sequence
The main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appear on plots of stellar Color index versus brightness. These color-absolute magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams after their co-developers, Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell.... . They have apparent magnitude
Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measurement of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, normalized to the value it would have in the absence of the Earth's atmosphere.... s of +4.2 and +4.4, which gives the system a combined apparent magnitude
Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measurement of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, normalized to the value it would have in the absence of the Earth's atmosphere.... of +3.57. The orbital period of the binary is 36 or 74 years, and the two stars are separated by 0.13 arcseconds.
