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tauri

tauri

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Part of star names that shows the star is in the Taurus constellation
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtɔːri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : Tauri
  • Examples include Beta Persei, RW Tauri, U Sagittae, and Delta Librae.
  • Tauri stars

Examples

  • Either you have to postpone the reported date by at least one week, or you should change the associated star to Beta Tauri.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The brightest star is 4.8-magnitude SAO 76532, Omega Tauri, which will be occulted in the penumbra in eastern North America.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Certain stars, the T Tauri stars, are found only in these regions, and therefore they are identified as pre-main-sequence stars.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Tauri, plural of Taurus is a particular case.

  • With a growing understanding of their characteristics, compared with what we expect them to be like on the basis of current ideas about star formation, it has become clear that the T Tauri are in a late stage of gravitational contraction.

    Academic text (1991)
  • For years, sw perflares have occurred on solar-type stars, stars like S Fornacis, 5 Serpentis, and MT Tauri.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • A long-standing puzzle connected with T Tauri stars is that even though they are supposed to be forming by infall of surrounding material, their spectra suggest outflow of gas from their atmospheres.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The new star, named Tauri, has since become something of a minor celebrity among astronomers.

  • The minor planet 1 Ceres passes north of Tauri on March 14.

  • Astronomers have learned a lot about this stellar baby, the original Tauri, in the past 150 years.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Tauri is the Latin form meaning 'of Taurus', and Taurus means 'bull'. So in star names like 'Beta Tauri' it simply means 'Beta of the Taurus constellation'.