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Encyclopedia Britannica



CASSIOPEIA

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 460 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CASSIOPEIA , in Greek mythology, the wife of Cepheus, and
mother
  of
Andromeda
 ; in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and
Aratus
  (3rd century B.c.).
Ptolemy
  catalogued 13 stars in this constellation, Tycho Brahe 46, and Hevelius 37. Its most interesting stars are: Nova Cassiopeiae, a " new "
star
 , which burst out with extraordinary brilliancy in 1572, when it was observed by Tycho Brahe,but gradually diminished in brightness, ultimately vanishing in about eighteen months; a-Cassiopeiae and R-Cassiopeiae are variable stars, the former irregular, the latter having a
long
  period; ri-Cassiopeiae, a binary
star
 , having components of magnitudes 32 and 72; o--Cassiopeiae, a
double
  star, one being
white
  and of magnitude 5, the other blue and of magnitude 71.


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