Fomalhaut

American  

[foh-muhl-hawt, -muh-loh] / ˈfoʊ məlˌhɔt, -məˌloʊ /

noun

Astronomy.

1. a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.

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Fomalhaut British  

/ ˈfəʊməˌləʊt /

noun

1. the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, possessing a protoplanetary disc. Distance: 25 light years. Spectral type A3V

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Etymology

Origin of Fomalhaut

First recorded in 1585–95; from Spanish Arabic fam al-ḥawt “mouth of the fish”; so called from its position in the constellation Piscis Austrinus ( Latin , literally “southern fish”)

Example Sentences

Yet astronomers have now identified evidence of two enormous collisions around a nearby star named Fomalhaut, all within just 20 years.

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Over tens of thousands of years, Kalas explained, the region around Fomalhaut would appear to be filled with glowing debris, "sparkling with these collisions" -- similar to twinkling holiday lights.

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Kalas began studying Fomalhaut in 1993 while searching for dusty disks that remain after planet formation.

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Located just 25 light years from Earth, Fomalhaut is relatively young -- about 440 million years old -- making it a useful stand-in for what the solar system looked like early in its history.

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This marked the first time an exoplanet had been directly imaged at optical wavelengths, and it was named Fomalhaut b following standard naming rules.

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