Shedar

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Shedar is the brightest star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia is a northern sky constellation easily recognized by a group of five bright stars forming a slightly irregular "W" shape. Shedar's name is Arabic for "breast" and it has a magnitude of 2.2. In Greek mythology, Cassiopeia was the queen of Ethiopia.1

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Cassiopeia
Its brightest star, Shedar (Arabic for “breast”), has a magnitude of 2.2. Tycho’s Nova, one of the few recorded supernovas in the Milky Way Galaxy, appeared in Cassiopeia in 1572. This constellation also contains the prominent radio source Cassiopeia A, a
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Its brightest star, Shedar (Arabic for “breast”), has a magnitude of 2.2. Tycho’s Nova, one of the few recorded supernovas in the Milky Way Galaxy, appeared in Cassiopeia in 1572. This constellation also contains the prominent radio source Cassiopeia A, a
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