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2I/Borisov

2I/Borisov, also called Comet Borisov, is the first confirmed interstellar comet and the second interstellar object detected, after 1I/'Oumuamua. Discovered by Gennady Borisov in 2019, it passed through the Solar System in 2019 and 2020.

2MA 0415 0935

2MASS J0415-0935 (2MASS J04151954-0935066) is a T8 brown dwarf about 5.7 parsecs away in Eridanus, roughly 700 K, the T8 spectral standard, once the coolest known brown dwarf, now studied with JWST.

2MA 0939 2448

2MASS J09393548−2448279 (2M0939, 2MA 0939−2448) is a T8 brown dwarf 5.34 pc away in Antlia, likely an unresolved equal-mass binary of roughly 500–700 K components.

2MASS J11011926-7732383

2MASS J11011926-7732383, also written 2M1101AB, is a wide-separation binary brown dwarf in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, about 600 light-years away, discovered by Kevin Luhman in 2004.

31 Comae Berenices

31 Comae Berenices, also known as 31 Com, is a single, rapidly rotating yellow giant in Coma Berenices and one of the few known FK Comae-type variable stars.

31 Cygni

31 Cygni, also cataloged as V695 Cygni, is an eclipsing binary in Cygnus where a K-type supergiant is eclipsed by a hot B-type companion every 10.36 years.

3A 1510-590

3A 1510-590, an X-ray source in Circinus from the Third Ariel V catalog, is identified with the young pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its supernova remnant MSH 15-52.

3C 58

3C 58 is a filled-center supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in Cassiopeia, long identified with the supernova of AD 1181, though its age is now contested.

3x2pt analysis

A 3x2pt analysis is a cosmological method that jointly analyzes three two-point correlation functions: cosmic shear, galaxy clustering, and galaxy-galaxy lensing, proposed by Hu and Jain (2004).

40 Eridani

40 Eridani, also called Omicron-2 Eridani or Keid, is a triple star system about 16.5 light-years away in Eridanus, home to the first recognized white dwarf.

47 Tucanae

47 Tucanae, also known as NGC 104, is a globular cluster about 10.5 billion years old in the constellation Tucana, the second brightest known after Omega Centauri.

48 Aurigae

48 Aurigae, also known as RT Aurigae, is a classical Cepheid variable star in the constellation Auriga that brightens and dims every 3.728 days, about 1,560 light years away.

48 Librae

48 Librae (FX Librae) is a bright Be shell star in the constellation Libra, a rapidly rotating B-type star with a dense, extended circumstellar disk seen nearly edge-on from Earth.

4U 0142+61

4U 0142+61 is an anomalous X-ray pulsar, a strongly magnetized neutron star in Cassiopeia about 13,000 light-years away, known for optical pulsations and a debris disk.

4U 1543-47

4U 1543-47, also cataloged as IL Lupi, is a transient X-ray binary in the Milky Way containing a stellar-mass black hole, discovered by the Uhuru satellite in 1971.

4U 1630-47

4U 1630-47, also written 4U 1630−472, is a black hole X-ray binary erupting every 600 to 700 days, the shortest recurrence time of its class.

4U 1700-37

4U 1700-37 is an eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary in Scorpius, pairing the supergiant HD 153919 with a compact object, likely a neutron star, discovered in 1970.

4U 1907+09

4U 1907+09 is an accretion-powered X-ray pulsar in an eccentric 8.38-day orbit around a blue supergiant, fed by its stellar wind and known for long-term spin-down with torque reversals.

50 Persei

50 Persei, also cataloged as HD 25998 and V582 Persei, is an F-type main-sequence star in Perseus, about 69 light years from the Sun, that varies as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable.

53 Camelopardalis

53 Camelopardalis (53 Cam) is a strongly magnetic, chemically peculiar A-type star in the constellation Camelopardalis whose field and surface chemistry change visibly over its 8-day rotation.

55 Cygni

55 Cygni is a blue supergiant star in Cygnus, cataloged as HD 198478, about 800 parsecs away, long used as a spectral standard for B-type supergiants.

58 Eridani

58 Eridani (58 Eri), also cataloged HD 30495, is a young, Sun-like yellow dwarf in Eridanus about 43.3 light-years away, studied as an example of the young Sun.

61 Cygni

61 Cygni, also called Bessel's Star, is a binary system of two K-type dwarfs in Cygnus about 11.4 light-years away, where Bessel first measured a star's distance in 1838.

61 Ursae Majoris

61 Ursae Majoris, or 61 UMa, is a G8 main-sequence star in Ursa Major about 31 light-years away, a solar analog slightly cooler than the Sun.

67 Ophiuchi

67 Ophiuchi, also known as 67 Oph or HD 164353, is a magnitude 3.97 blue supergiant in Ophiuchus, about 1420 light years away, evolving toward the red supergiant stage.

68 Cygni

68 Cygni (HD 203064) is a variable O-type giant star in Cygnus, about 2,300 light years away, best known as a defining case study of corotating interaction regions in hot-star winds.

70 Ophiuchi

70 Ophiuchi (70 Oph) is a nearby binary star system in Ophiuchus, 16.6 light-years from the Sun, with two orange K-type dwarfs orbiting every 83 to 88 years.

85 Pegasi

85 Pegasi is a nearby triple star system in Pegasus, about 40 light-years away, famous for a mass discrepancy resolved when its secondary proved to be a binary.

89 Herculis

89 Herculis is a pulsating F-type supergiant and the prototype of post-AGB binary systems with circumbinary dust discs, orbiting a low-mass companion every 289 days.

9 Ceti

9 Ceti, also cataloged as HD 1835 and designated BE Ceti, is a nearby Sun-like star in Cetus about 21 parsecs away, a young, active BY Draconis variable.