"Jeddah astronomer": The association of Mars with the lion’s heart star today
The sky of the Kingdom and the Arab world witnesses this evening, Tuesday, a distinctive astronomical phenomenon, which is the association of Mars with the star of the lion, and they will appear close to each other after the beginning of the night, over the western horizon and can be monitored with the naked eye easily. (271) million kilometers, while the star of the lion’s heart is about (79) light years, but they appear visually close due to their occurrence in the line of seeing one of the observer perspective on the ground, and this phenomenon is known astronomically as the apparent conjugation and does not mean the existence of a real physical relationship between them & quot;
described the star of the lion’s heart as the brightest stars of the lion constellation and one of the four stars The old astronomy, and the Arabs are known to use it in wild and marine navigation, and this star is classified from the spectral category B, and it is characterized by being a young star with a young person with a diameter of about (4) times the diameter of the sun. Cultural with the positions and tales that reflect its remarkable color and its apparent movement that seems irregular in the sky, but scientifically these characteristics are caused by the composition of its surface and its regular orbital movement, and do not cause exceptional events on the ground, pointing out that the monitoring begins after (45) minutes of sunset, and it is preferable to choose a location far from optical pollution that is a Western horizon Open.
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