English Explanatory Dictionary

Gomez's Hamburger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A young A0III-type star with an apparent magnitude of +14.4 in the constellation Sagittarius at a distance of 250 ±50 parsecs from Earth.

Word forms

Gomez's Hamburger

Etymology

Named for its discoverer, Chilean astronomer and astrophotographer Arturo Gómez, and for its resemblance to a hamburger (its protoplanetary disk the dark “burger” and the far sparser starlight-illuminated dust on either side the light “buns”) when viewed edge-on from Earth.

Synonyms

IRAS 18059-3211

Related words

Dracula’s Chivito
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