Location
CoLab, COM 100
Start Date
1-5-2025 9:45 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
SS Aurigae (SS Aur) is a UGSS star first examined by E. Silbernagel on October 13th, 1906. SS Aur, while named after the constellation Auriga, the charioteer, is not a part of the outline of the constellation but within it. SS Aur is located in the northern celestial hemispheres of the Milky Way galaxy. The right ascension is 4.149 hours, and the declination is -23.395 degrees. SS Aur is in the spectral class of B, meaning it is a light blue. It would take 847.357 light years to travel to SS Aur. SS Aur is a cataclysmic-variable star in a binary system. This means that the star is always changing in brightness, intensity, and color, with some sudden outbursts of energy. The star is a system of two stars, a white dwarf and a secondary star. The secondary star orbits around the white dwarf and is pulled in and used as fuel by the dwarf. A disk forms around the system, and sometimes there are sudden, unexpected outbursts of energy.
Image
The SS Aur
CoLab, COM 100
SS Aurigae (SS Aur) is a UGSS star first examined by E. Silbernagel on October 13th, 1906. SS Aur, while named after the constellation Auriga, the charioteer, is not a part of the outline of the constellation but within it. SS Aur is located in the northern celestial hemispheres of the Milky Way galaxy. The right ascension is 4.149 hours, and the declination is -23.395 degrees. SS Aur is in the spectral class of B, meaning it is a light blue. It would take 847.357 light years to travel to SS Aur. SS Aur is a cataclysmic-variable star in a binary system. This means that the star is always changing in brightness, intensity, and color, with some sudden outbursts of energy. The star is a system of two stars, a white dwarf and a secondary star. The secondary star orbits around the white dwarf and is pulled in and used as fuel by the dwarf. A disk forms around the system, and sometimes there are sudden, unexpected outbursts of energy.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Doug Patterson, Astronomy.