ANTARES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Antares mean? 

• ANTARES (noun)
  The noun ANTARES has 1 sense:

1. the brightest star in Scorpius

  Familiarity information: ANTARES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTARES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The brightest star in Scorpius

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

binary; binary star; double star (a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation)

Holonyms ("Antares" is a member of...):

Scorpio; Scorpius (a large zodiacal constellation between Libra and Sagittarius)

 Context examples 

They did this using the VLTI with three of the Auxiliary Telescopes and an instrument called AMBER to make separate images of the surface of Antares over a small range of infrared wavelengths.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

This resulted in a map of the relative speed of the atmospheric gas across the entire disc of Antares.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

To the unaided eye the famous, bright star Antares shines with a strong red tint in the heart of the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

They have also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in Antares’s huge extended atmosphere.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

They reason that a new, currently unknown, process may be needed to explain these movements in the extended atmospheres of red supergiants like Antares.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

A team of astronomers from the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile, has now used ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to map Antares’s surface and to measure the motions of the surface material.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)