Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, 24 light years from Earth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The first-magnitude star situated in the mouth of the Southern Fish, Piscis Austrinus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy The brightest
star in theconstellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky; Alpha (α) Piscis Austrini.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Paul Kalas, the lead astronomer for the Berkeley team, said he "nearly had a heart attack" when he found the new planet, which he calls Fomalhaut b.
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Not only that, but Fomalhaut is moving with respect to us, and this proper motion across the sky can be measured.
Archive 2008-12-11 Nicole 2008
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Seeing as there's been a dry spell of planets named Fomalhaut from the current generation of writers (unless y'all wanna prove me wrong), I promise that the next SF story I write involving space travel will now contain a lava-red planet with breathable air called Fummelhot.
Here a Fomalhaut, there a Fomalhaut... pabba 2008
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Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the 200-million-year-old star every 872 years.
WN.com - Articles related to 'Shrek Forever After' leads slow Hollywood weekend 2010
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Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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