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Encyclopedia Britannica



HERCULES

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 347 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HERCULES , in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th
century
  B.C.) and
Aratus
  (3rd
century
  B.C.) and catalogued by
Ptolemy
  (29 stars) and Tycho Brahe (28 stars). Represented by a man kneeling, this constellation was first known as " the man on his knees," and was afterwards called Cetheus,
Theseus
  and Hercules by the ancient Greeks. Interesting objects in this constellation are: a Herculis, a fine coloured
double
 
star
 , composed of an orange
star
  of magnitude 22, and a blue star of magnitude 6;
Herculis, a binary star, discovered by Sir
William
 
Herschel
  in 1782; one component is a yellow star of the third magnitude, the other a bluish, which appears to vary from red to blue, of magnitude 6; g and u Herculis, irregularly variable stars; and the cluster M. 13 Herculis, the finest globular cluster in the northern hemisphere, containing at least 5000 stars and of the r000 determined only 2 are variable.


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