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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

Contents

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

BlackHoleSourcetype

A paper that a fact comes from.

Import it

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

Definition

interface BlackHoleSource {
    key: string;
    citation: string;
    link: string | undefined;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
keystring

A short key, unique in the table (Cantrell2010).

citationstring

The citation: author, year, journal, volume and page (Cantrell 2010, ApJ 710, 1127).

linkstring | undefined

Where to read it: an NASA ADS, arXiv or Wikidata address, or undefined.

Examples

import { blackHole, type BlackHoleSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/black-holes";

const source: BlackHoleSource = blackHole("A0620-00")!.sources.mass[0]!;
console.log(source.citation, source.link);
Cantrell 2010, ApJ 710, 1127 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...710.1127C

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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