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beta Cephei star comparison table

Subject	has spectral type	is part of	has extent	has age	has surface temperature	is an instance of	has velocity	has surface density	has star surface temperature	has optical brightness variation	has V magnitude	has parallax	has observational problem	has light curve	has position on celestial sphere	has location	has angular momentum	has radiation at surface	has B magnitude	has temperature	has prototype	has spectra	has period	has proper motion	has amplitude	has energy source	has energy production	has catalog	has absolute magnitude	has U magnitude	has volume	has momentum	has apparent magnitude	has material	has mass	has name designated with	has observable variation time scale	has synonym
Beta Cephei	O9-B3	Cepheus			greater than 1000 Kelvin	beta Cephei star	determined from proper motion and radial velocity	which depends on luminosity class		0.2 magnitudes or greater		from the point of view of Earth's orbit	some difficulty in distinguishing between various kinds		from the point of view of Earth	or center of gravity		which is diffused out from the hotter core			beta Cephei		P = 3.5 to 6 hr			gravitational contraction and or fusion	which takes place primarily within the core	star catalog						hydrogen, helium	greater than 0.08 the sun's mass	R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, or Z and the genitive of the latin constellation name RR, RS, RT, RU, RV, RW, RX, RY, or RZ and the genitive of the latin constellation name when the single letter designations are exhausted AA...AZ, BB...BZ, etc. (omitting J), which ends with QQ...QZ and the genitive of the latin constellation namewhen the RR...RZ designations are exhausted V 335, V 336, etc., when the double letter designations are exhausted	within a period of decades	beta Canis Majoris star

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