Aldebaran

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4990.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4990. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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The star α Tauri, a red giant of spectral type K5III, apparent magnitude 0.87. Its distance is 65 light-years, its parallax 0.050''. The absolute magnitude is -0.6. Aldebaran appears at the eastward corner of the striking triangular open cluster the Hyades, although it is not actually a member of the cluster which is much more distant (about 100 light-years). The name derives from the Arabic Al D...

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