A Fascinating Double Star (Albireo) – Deep Sky Videos

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Professor Meghan Gray discusses the double star Albireo (also known as Beta Cygni) at the head of swan in the constellation Cygnus… More links and info in full description ↓↓↓

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Some papers from this video…
Spectroscopic notes: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1897ApJ…..6..322H
A celestial matryoshka: dynamical and spectroscopic analysis of the Albireo system: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502..328D/abstract
Yet another star in the Albireo system: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04222
Gaia Shows That Messier 40 is Definitely Not a Binary Star: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00834

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