Menkalinan (beta Aurigae) is a spectroscopic eclipsing Binary Star system. The two components appear as single star to the visual observations, but their orbit plane is almost aligned with our line of sight. As a result, they appear to eclipse each other as they orbit, and the system brightness varies slightly when seen from Earth. […]
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