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    Musca (redirect from Muscae)
    the Milky Way. These include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Zeta2 and (probably) Eta Muscae, as well as HD 100546, a blue-white Herbig Ae/Be star that is surrounded...
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    R Muscae is a yellow-white hued variable star in the southern constellation of Musca. It has a nominal apparent visual magnitude of 6.31, which is near...
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    Entomophthora muscae is a species of pathogenic fungus in the order Entomophthorales which causes a fatal disease in flies. It can cause epizootic outbreaks...
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    Floater (redirect from Muscae volitantes)
    shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility. They are also called muscae volitantes (Latin for 'flying flies'), or mouches volantes (from the same...
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    Delta Muscae, Latinized from δ Muscae, often catalogued as HD 112985, is a spectroscopic binary star system and the closest to the Earth in the southern...
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    Theta MuscaeMuscae) is a multiple star system in the southern constellation Musca ("the Fly"), containing a Wolf-Rayet star and two massive companions...
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    Lambda Muscae, Latinized from λ Muscae, and often catalogued HD 102249 or HIP 57363, is a triple star system and the fourth-brightest star in the Southern...
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    HD 100546 (redirect from KR Muscae)
    HD 100546, also known as KR Muscae, is a pre-main sequence star of spectral type B8 to A0 located 353 light-years (108 parsecs) from Earth in the southern...
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    GT Muscae, also known as 12 Muscae, is a variable star about 400 light years from the Earth, in the constellation Musca. It is a 5th magnitude star, so...
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  • GRS 1124-683 (redirect from GU Muscae)
    black hole candidate. The system also goes by the name X-ray Nova Muscae 1991 or GU Muscae. These two orbiting X-ray telescopes discovered the system when...
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    Beta Muscae, Latinized from β Muscae, is a binary star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Musca. With a combined apparent visual magnitude of...
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    Epsilon Muscae, Latinized as ε Muscae, is a red giant star of spectral type M5III in the constellation Musca. It is a 4th magnitude star, visible to the...
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    An R Coronae Borealis variable (abbreviated RCB, R CrB) is an eruptive variable star that varies in luminosity in two modes, one low amplitude pulsation...
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    Alpha Muscae, Latinized from α Muscae, is a star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Musca. With an apparent visual magnitude of +2.7, it is...
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    dots. Scheerer's phenomenon can be easily distinguished from floaters (muscae volitantes). Scheerer's phenomenon consists of corpuscles of identical diameter...
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    output is in the ultraviolet. The naked-eye star systems γ Velorum and θ Muscae both contain Wolf-Rayet stars, and two of the most massive known stars,...
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    GR Muscae, also known as 2S 1254-690 is a binary star system in the constellation Musca composed of a neutron star of between 1.2 and 1.8 times the mass...
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    S Muscae is a classical (δ) Cepheid variable star in the constellation Musca about 2,600 light years away. S Muscae is a yellow supergiant ranging between...
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  • well understood. Some examples of entoptical effects include: Floaters or muscae volitantes are slowly drifting blobs of varying size, shape, and transparency...
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    450 ) 4 ⋅ 0.021 = 0.782   R ⊙ {\displaystyle {\sqrt {{\biggl (}{\frac {5,772}{2,450}}{\biggr )}^{4}\cdot 0.021}}=0.782\ R_{\odot }} . Using PMS evolutionary...
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    Actually a three-star system Alpha1 and Alpha2 Capricorni Theta Muscae and Theta Muscae B Zeta1 and Zeta2 Scorpii Eta1 and Eta2 Coronae Australis Winnecke...
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    heliosphere. In 2006, a far infrared bow shock was detected near the AGB star R Hydrae. Bow shocks are also a common feature in Herbig Haro objects, in which...
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    Entomophthora leyteensis Villac. & S. Keller ex S. Keller (2004) Entomophthora muscae (Cohn) Fresen. (1856) Entomophthora oehrensiana (Aruta, Carrillo & Monteal...
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    felis, S. delphini, S. hyicus, S. intermedius, S. lutrae, S. microti, S. muscae, S. pseudintermedius, S. rostri, S. schleiferi S. lugdunensis group – S...
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    feed on housefly larvae in manure heaps and the predatory mite Macrocheles muscae domesticae consumes housefly eggs, each mite eating 20 eggs per day. Houseflies...
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    for planets around Alpha Centauri A, as well as observations of Epsilon Muscae. The coronographic observations, which occurred on July 26 and 27, 2023...
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    TU Muscae, also known as HD100213, is an eclipsing binary star in the constellation Musca. Its apparent magnitude ranges from 8.17 to 8.75 over around...
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  • Zeta2 Muscae, Latinized from ζ2 Muscae, is a star in the southern constellation of Musca. Its apparent magnitude is 5.16. This is a white main sequence...
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  • point. The blue supergiant Theta Muscae has one of the lowest B−V indices at −0.41, while the red giant and carbon star R Leporis has one of the largest...
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    Eta Muscae is a multiple star system in the southern constellation of Musca. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued point of light...
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