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Antares

[ an-tair-eez, -tar- ]

noun

Astronomy.
  1. a red supergiant star of the first magnitude in the constellation Scorpius.


Antares

/ 忙苍藞迟蓻蓹谤颈藧锄 /

noun

  1. the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a variable binary star whose main component, a red supergiant, is associated with a fainter green component. Visual magnitude: 1.2 (red), 6.8 (green); spectral type: M1.5Ib (red); distance: 600 light years
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Antares1

from Greek 础苍迟补谤脓蝉, literally: simulating Mars (in colour), from anti- + 础谤脓蝉 Mars
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Let鈥檚 get back to my summertime favorites of Vega, Arcturus and Antares.

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Antares marks the heart of Scorpius, and from our temperate latitudes rises in the southeast as Betelgeuse sets in the west.

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Chinese inscriptions dating to 1300 B.C.E. record Antares as being red like Mars鈥攁 comparison that turns up time and time again across the Northern Hemisphere and through subsequent ages.

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The Antares rocket launches Northrop's Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the space station.

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The freeze may most acutely affect Northrop Grumman, which uses Russian-made engines for its Antares launch vehicle that ferries cargo to the space station for NASA.

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