Word: sanduleak
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...object in the constellation Aquila (Eagle) that seems simultaneously to be hurtling toward and away from us. It is designated SS 433 because it was the 433rd object listed in a catalogue published a few years ago by Case Western Reserve Astronomers C. Bruce Stephenson and Nicholas Sanduleak. But it is also listed in a standard inventory of variable stars (whose light brightens and dims) as V1343 Aquilae. If the myriad catalogues are something of a hodgepodge, a semblance of order is maintained by the International Astronomical Union, the organization of the world's professional astronomers. The I.A.U...
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