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Hoshi Stars星

The stars you can see without a telescope, with names, colours and distances; the 88 constellations with their lines and boundaries; the Messier objects; and seven map projections to draw them on.

Hoshi is the Japanese word 星 for a star. About the name

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Reference · Black holes: 301 with a place, a mass and distance with ranges, how each was found and the paper behind each fact

BLACK_HOLE_KINDSconstant

The kinds of black hole, a small fixed list: stellar (in an X-ray binary, found by the X-rays it makes), quiet (found from the orbit of its companion star, or from how it bent the light of a star behind it, and giving off almost nothing) and supermassive (at the centre of a galaxy).

Import it

import { BLACK_HOLE_KINDS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/black-holes";

Definition

const BLACK_HOLE_KINDS: readonly ["stellar", "quiet", "supermassive"] = ["stellar", "quiet", "supermassive"] as const

Examples

import { BLACK_HOLE_KINDS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/black-holes";

console.log(BLACK_HOLE_KINDS.join(", "));
stellar, quiet, supermassive

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars 0.47.0.