Gomez's Hamburger
English
editEtymology
editNamed for its discoverer, Chilean astronomer and astrophotographer Arturo Gómez, and for its resemblance to a hamburger (its protoplanetary disk the dark “burger” and the far sparser starlight-illuminated dust on either side the light “buns”) when viewed edge-on from Earth.
Proper noun
edit- (astronomy) A young A0III-type star with an apparent magnitude of +14.4 in the constellation Sagittarius at a distance of 250 ±50 parsecs from Earth.
- Synonym: IRAS 18059-3211
Translations
editA0III-type star (V +14.4) in Sagittarius, 250 ±50 pc from Earth
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See also
editFurther reading
edit- Gomez’s Hamburger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
editProper noun
edit- (astronomy) Gomez’s Hamburger
- Synonym: IRAS 18059-3211
Further reading
edit- Gomez’s Hamburger on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de