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...nal name, as do many other prominent stars.<ref group="nb">Its name is a [[Bayer designation]]: '[[Tau]]' is a Greek letter and 'Ceti' the possessive form o ..., determined by comparing its position relative to more distant background objects. Tau Ceti is considered to be a high-proper-motion star, although it only h ...

...from the [[Ancient Greek]] Σείριος.<ref name=Liddell /> The star has the [[Bayer designation]] α Canis Majoris (α CMa, or [[alpha (letter)|Alpha]] Canis Maj ...s | month=March | year=2008 | url=http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/doublestars/3309846.html?page=3&c=y ...

| names = [[Bayer designation|Alpha Centauri C]], [[Catalog of Components of Double and Multi ...ed detection by the radial velocity method.</ref> The detection of smaller objects will require the use of new instruments, such as the proposed [[Space Inter ...

...ohann Bayer]] created a series of star maps and applied Greek letters as [[Bayer designation|designations]] to the stars in each constellation. Later a numb ...tp://www.iau.org/public_press/themes/naming/ | title = Naming Astronomical Objects ...

...stellar disk of dust. This dust is likely the result of collisions between objects in an orbiting [[debris disk]], which is analogous to the [[Kuiper belt]] i [[Astrophotography]], the [[photography]] of celestial objects, began in 1840 when [[John William Draper]] took an image of the Moon using ...