Tau Ceti
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Tau Ceti is a yellow-orange star
like our Sun, Sol. (See a Digitized
Sky Survey image of Tau Ceti
from the Nearby Stars Database.) ...
Tau Ceti (Ï" Cet / Ï" Ceti) is a star commonly mentioned by science fiction authors since it is similar to the Sun in mass and spectral type in addition to being relatively close to us.
Tau Ceti
A G-type main-sequence star that lies in the constellation Cetus, 11.4 light-years away. It is a single star like the Sun.
RV Tauri Stars ...
tau Ceti features in many science fiction novels by virtue of the fact that it is the nearest single (non-multiple) solar-type star to the Sun.
Parallax Experiment ...
[2483] tau Ceti, only 12 light-years distant from the solar system, is a 'metal-deficient' star with a huge debris disk.
TAU CET (Tau Ceti). While Cetus, the Whale, is not among the brightest constellations, two of its stars (bright-third magnitude Menkar and second magnitude Deneb Kaitos) nicely mark its head and tail.
Examples: Sun, Alpha Centauri A, Capella, Tau Ceti
Class K
Class K are orangish stars which are slightly cooler than our Sun.
Frank Drake, a young radio astronomer, pointed an 85-foot telescope at two nearby, Sun-like stars: Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. Drake tuned the telescope to detect a frequency of around 1,420 MHz, the frequency at which atomic hydrogen emits.
Tau Ceti
Taurus Ceti (there is no "Taurus" star in this modern constellation)
NGC 321 ...
To find UV Ceti first locate tau Ceti, then the binary h 2067 (see above). UV Ceti is in the same viewing area, just half a degree to the southwest of h 2067. Burnham (p. 642) has a finder's chart.
Deep Sky Objects: ...
82 LY [Y]
Tau Ceti - 11.88 LY [YH]
GJ 1061 - 11.92 LY [RECONS]
YZ Ceti - 12.13 LY [YH]
Luyten's Star - 12.36 LY [YH]
Kapteyn's Star - 12.77 LY [YH]
AX Microscopium - 12.86 LY [YH]
Kruger 60 Star System ...
The search for extrasolar planets might take us to Epsilon Eridani or Tau Ceti, Sun-like stars at 10.8 and 11.8 light-years away.
Drake used a 25-meter-diameter radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, to examine the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani near the 1.420 gigahertz marker frequency.
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) dates from 1960, when Frank Drake first used a radio telescope to look for signals coming from the direction of the sunlike stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani in Project Ozma.
Ozma was a pretty simple set-up; Drake only had a single channel (bandwidth) receiver on the 26-metre Green Bank radio telescope with which he targeted two stars - tau Ceti and epsilon Eridani - scanning at 1420MHz.
An infrared source (an M-type Mira variable with a period of 465 days) discovered by Neugebauer, Martz, and Leighton in 1965. ( IK Tau) [H76]
Tau Ceti ...
The remaining systems within ten light years are the binary red dwarf system Luyten 726-8 (8.7 light years) and the solitary red dwarf Ross 154 (9.7 light years).[99] Our closest solitary sun-like star is Tau Ceti, which lies 11.9 light years away.
 See also: Tau Cet, Star, Planet, Light, Earth
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