Fomalhaut
 Fomalhaut |
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Location In The Night Sky
In this picture, it is showing the night sky from Detroit at 9pm in September. You can see Fomalhaut in the South East, at a 60 degree angle. Fomalhaut is in the Piscis Austrinus Constellation.
Piscis Austrinus
This is a picture of Fomalhaut that is in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. The picture shows the lines and art of the Piscis Austrinus constellation. Fomalhaut is also the eye of the fish, Piscis Austrinus.
Fomalhaut
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Compared to the Sun
Fomalhaut is about two times the diameter of the sun, with a mass about 2.1 times the Sun. It is also considered metal deficient to the Sun. |
Classification
Fomalhaut is classified as a blue-white class A star. The star is a white main sequence dwarf star with a stellar classification of A3V. |
Luminosity and Temperature
The apparent magnitude of Fomalhaut is 1.15 and the absolute magnitude is 1.72. The apparent magnitude of a star is how bright the star appears from earth, the absolute magnitude is how bright the star actually is. Fomalhaut is is 18th brightest star in the sky. Fomalhaut is 25.04 light years away from the Sun, which is one of the closest stars to the Sun. Fomalhaut is fourteen times more luminous than the sun as well as much hotter with a surface temperature of 8,751 K.
Facts
-Fomalhaut is pronounced (foam-a-lot)
-Fomalhaut is considered one of the four Royal Stars. Royal Stars mark the different seasons because they are the dominant stars in the sky during a certain season. Fomalhaut is the most prominent star during the months of autumn.
-Sometimes it is called the loneliest star because it is the only star in a large area of the sky.
-Fomalhaut has a Ring, Center, Inner Edge and Outer Edge that is why it looks like an eye.
-The word Fomalhaut means "whales mouth" in Arabic
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Fomalhaut b
This star system contains the first visible extrasolar planet known as Fomalhaut b. Fomalhaut b rotates around Fomalhaut every 872 years. Fomalhaut b is three times the size of Jupiter and 10.7 billion miles away from Fomalhaut. |
 Where Fomalhaut b has moved in 2 years. |
An informational video about Fomalhaut
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