Mira (/ ˈmaɪrə /), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–300 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a …

May 28, 2020 · Mira, Omicron Ceti (ο Cet), is a red giant star located at a distance of 300 ly from Earth in the constellation Cetus. It is a pulsating variable star and a prototype for its own class, known as the Mira variables.

Jun 11, 2023 · Depending on when you look for Mira, this reddish star in the constellation Cetus the Whale might or might not be visible. It goes through its bright-to-faint-to-bright cycle about every 332...

Nov 2, 2016 · Mira (MY-rah) is a star that scientists have studied for over 400 years. But NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer telescope captured a very surprising image of Mira. It showed for the first time that Mira has a long tail of dust and gas—13 light-years long!

Mira Ceti, first variable star (apart from novae) to be discovered, lying in the southern constellation Cetus, and the prototype of a class known as long-period variables, or Mira stars. There is some evidence that ancient Babylonian astronomers noticed its variable character.

Omicron (ο) Cetus, Mira (related to the words “miraculous”, and “ad-mire”, from Latin mirus, “wonderful”), is described as a deep garnet colored star located in the neck of the Whale or Sea-Monster. Mira has been called the constellation’s necklace.

Aug 6, 1997 · Contracting and expanding every 332 days, Mira sheds vast amounts of material through its powerful "wind" of gas and dust. Mira's companion is a burned-out star called a white dwarf that is surrounded by material captured from Mira's wind. At a distance of about 400 light-years, Mira is the closest wind-accreting binary system to Earth.

Mira, also designated as ο Ceti, is a variable and multiple giant star of magnitude 3.04 in the constellation of Cetus. Find complete information about Mira on TheSkyLive.com.

Aug 10, 2013 · Bottom line: In 2013, the sky’s most famous variable star – Mira the Wonderful – may be bright enough to be visible in July and August 2013. The chart in this post will help you identify it.

Mira, a class M7 red giant 420 light years away, is the brightest and nearest of the red class M "long period variables," thousands of which are known. The star varies from about third magnitude (though sometimes it can reach second) all the way down to tenth, 40 or so times fainter than the human eye can see alone, and then back again over a ...