Aldebaran
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /alˈdɛbəɹən/
Proper noun
  1. (star) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. [from 14th c.]
    • circa 1390 John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
      To telle riht as he began, / The ferste sterre Aldeboran, / The cliereste and the moste of alle, / Be rihte name men it calle […]
    • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
      The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.
    • 2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, in The Guardian:
      The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.
Translations
  • French: Aldébaran
  • German: Aldebaran
  • Italian: Aldebaran
  • Portuguese: Aldebarã, Aldebaran
  • Russian: Альдебара́н
  • Spanish: Aldebarán



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