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    Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia from Greek mythology. It is easily recognizable due to its distinctive 'W' shape formed by five bright stars. Cassiopeia hosts some of the most luminous stars known, including variable stars and hypergiants. It also contains supernova remnants, exoplanets, star clusters, and the nearby irregular galaxy IC 10.

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    Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia from Greek mythology. It is easily recognizable due to its distinctive 'W' shape formed by five bright stars. Cassiopeia hosts some of the most luminous stars known, including variable stars and hypergiants. It also contains supernova remnants, exoplanets, star clusters, and the nearby irregular galaxy IC 10.

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    Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia from Greek mythology. It is easily recognizable due to its distinctive 'W' shape formed by five bright stars. Cassiopeia hosts some of the most luminous stars known, including variable stars and hypergiants. It also contains supernova remnants, exoplanets, star clusters, and the nearby irregular galaxy IC 10.

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    Cassiopeia ( pronunciation) is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the vain

    queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty. Cassiopeia


    was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and it
    remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. It is easily recognizable due to its
    distinctive 'W' shape, formed by five bright stars.
    Cassiopeia is located in the northern sky and from latitudes above 34°N it is visible year-
    round. In the (sub)tropics it can be seen at its clearest from September to early November,
    and at low southern, tropical, latitudes of less than 25°S it can be seen, seasonally, low in
    the North.
    At magnitude 2.2, Alpha Cassiopeiae, or Schedar, is generally the brightest star in
    Cassiopeia, though it is occasionally outshone by the variable Gamma Cassiopeiae, which
    has reached magnitude 1.6. The constellation hosts some of the most luminous stars known,
    including the yellow hypergiants Rho Cassiopeiae and V509 Cassiopeiae and white
    hypergiant 6 Cassiopeiae. In 1572, Tycho Brahe's supernova flared brightly in
    Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia A is a supernova remnant and the brightest extrasolar radio
    source in the sky at frequencies above 1 GHz. Fourteen star systems have been found to
    have exoplanets, one of which—HR 8832—is thought to host seven planets. A rich section of
    the Milky Way runs through Cassiopeia, containing a number of open clusters, young
    luminous galactic disc stars, and nebulae. IC 10 is an irregular galaxy that is the closest
    known starburst galaxy and the only one in the Local Group of galaxies.

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