Cephei
- genitive of Cepheus.
Example Sentences
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Despite this obstacle, by 1988 he had detected the signal of a Jupiter-mass planet that circles around a star named Gamma Cephei every 2.7 years.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 12, 2019
In a 1992 paper, based on this concern, Walker backed away from the claim that the signal from Gamma Cephei represented a planet.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 12, 2019
Figure 19.9 is the light curve for the prototype cepheid variable Delta Cephei.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
In the meantime, Goodricke had discovered two other stars that varied regularly, Beta Lyrae and Delta Cephei, both of which continued to interest astronomers for years to come.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
More lately, however, Deslandres and Campbell have determined for ζ Herculis and η Cephei respectively approaching rates of forty-four and fifty-four miles a second.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
