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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 · The host stars of confirmed exoplanets worth a visit: place, distance, and each planet's name and orbital period

ExoplanetHostSelectiontype

Why a host is in the table: "near" (within 50 light-years), "named" (a star with an IAU proper name, farther) or "typed" (TRAPPIST-1, whose distance is typed from its papers).

Import it

import type { ExoplanetHostSelection } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/exoplanet-hosts";

Definition

type ExoplanetHostSelection = "near" | "named" | "typed";

Examples

import { exoplanetHostByName, type ExoplanetHostSelection } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/exoplanet-hosts";

const why: ExoplanetHostSelection = exoplanetHostByName("TRAPPIST-1")!.selection;
console.log(why);
typed

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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