#corona borealis

[shellsnroses]

Ariadne’s Crown

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[quiltofstars]

The constellation of Corona Borealis // Malcolm Park

Corona Borealis, or the "northern crown", is generally assumed to represent a crown given by the god Dionysus to Ariadne, the daughter of Minos of Crete, after she had been abandoned by the Athenian prince Theseus. She wore this crown at her wedding to Dionysus.

Read below the cut for some info about these stars and a chart to help identify them!

The stars featured, in order of brightness, are:

Alphecca (α Coronae Borealis) is named from the Arabic phrase nayyir al-fakka meaning "the bright [star] of the broken [ring of stars]". It is a binary star system, one star being a blue-white star and the other being a white star. It is about 75 light years away.

Nusakan (β Coronae Borealis) has a name that comes from the Arabic al-nasaqān meaning "the two lines [of stars]". This is another binary star system composed of two white stars. It is about 112 light years away.

γ Coronae Borealis is a binary star system composed of two blue-white stars. It is about 146 light years away.

θ Coronae Borealis is yet another binary star system of two blue-white stars. This is much further away at 380 light years.

ε Coronae Borealis is a binary star system of two red giant stars. It has a planet orbiting it, about 7 times more massive than Jupiter. The system is about 242 light years away.

δ Coronae Borealis is a solitary yellow-white giant star. It is also a variable star that changes brightness every 45 days. It is about 165 light years away.

ι Coronae Borealis is a binary star system of two white giant stars. The system is about 312 light years away.

[thevariantlen]

Corona Borealis

“She was the darling of the gods and she has her emblem in the sky: all night a ring of stars called Ariadne's Crown rolls on its way among the heavenly constellations."

-Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3

[wigmund]

T Coronae Borealis is a binary star system in the Northern Crown (Corona Borealis) constellation with a fairly regular nova cycle that is set to go off in the next few days.

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[philoursmars]

Fin août, je suis remonté vers le Nord en passant par l'Auvergne et Vichel.

Ici, le ciel, avec un double arc-en-ciel et la pureté du ciel nocturne : le Dauphin et l'étoile Véga sur la 3, Hercule et la Couronne Boréale sur la 5.

[starrytimepod]

Corona Borealis in Pop Culture

Podcast Episode

Our final Pop Culture episode for season 2 (QUESTS AND CURSES)! of the podcast is now available!

Companion Post

Favorites

Kit: Borealis Vintners -- their website shows they fully understood the assignment! Plus, it reminded me of Corona Australis, Jordan's wished for Australian Vinery from earlier this season!

Link: https://www.borealisvintners.com/

Jordan: A small business with a pun-name that both Jordan and I wish we'd thought of -- Aroma Borealis

Link: https://aromaborealis.com/

Honorable Mentions:

Borealis Freezing Fog (left) - a character from Elden ring, that we agreed had a great name and a less great design

Borealis Philanthropy (right) - a grant intermediary funding social justice initiatives

Borealis Records (below) - a Canadian record label that only signs Canadian artists

Links: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Borealis+the+Freezing+Fog & https://borealisphilanthropy.org/ & https://borealisrecords.com/about-us/

Least Favorites

Two companies that we don't know what they do, but we are confused and they do *sound,* in our opinion, like fictional supervillain companies. To be clear, we just *think* they got some fictional supervillain energy -- they might be perfectly normal... we do. not. know. Purely our highly uninformed opinion!

Kit: Borealis Exploration Limited -- I mean... just look at this website header and the logo:

Source link (Plz also notice that this website that has like 2 pages) : https://borealis.gi/pr_20190927.shtml

Relatedly -- this website for Borealis Holdings (this is the whole website):

Link: https://www.borealis.com/

Jordan: Borealis VC -- a venture capital firm with a statement of purpose we cannot parse... but has words that make us go huh... like "syndicate partners" ... probably this makes sense to business people, but not to us!

Source: https://www.borealis.vc/about

BONUS CONTENT

After we cut the mics, Jordan and I realized we had gotten so distracted by the pick-axe beluga, we didn't talk about other Borealis appearances!

So, Tumblr friends, here are a few more shout-outs to things that we found interesting using the Borealis brand:

Borealis Route on Amtrak -- the ad copy on this, y'all -- beautiful! (top left)

Borealis metal band (bottom left, image from Spotify), but also there is a Borealis Northern Chamber Choir?!

Borealis Backpack -- Perseus needs one of these (top right)

Borealis Fat Bike (bottom right)

Links: https://www.amtrak.com/borealis-train , https://www.thenorthface.com/en-us/bags-and-gear/backpacks-c224451/borealis-backpack-pNF0A52SE , https://fatbike.com/

Wished For

Some of our wishes have already come true... and some are still on the table. Listen to find out more!

With love,

Kit & Jordan

[emeraldcomets]

i drew some stuff ! i have this awesome book on astronomy and i thought it’d be super fun to draw constellations as people. these aren’t finished but i guess they’re kinda my oc’s now. i have a character sheet and stuff.

they’re not done no hate 😭😭😭

also these are school sketches i just draw when i don’t wanna do work 💀

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"...a fleeting but potentially stark celestial display that scientists are calling "a once-in-a-lifetime event."

""It's a once-in-a-lifetime event that will create a lot of new astronomers out there, giving young people a cosmic event they can observe for themselves, ask their own questions, and collect their own data," said Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who specializes in nova events, in a statement. "It'll fuel the next generation of scientists.""

[skycrorg]

Prepárese para ver una nueva estrella cataclísmica en el cielo

Los astrónomos saben que la explosión ha ocurrido porque sucede aproximadamente una vez cada 80 años, y mirando en sus bolas de cristal al revés, han observado que T CrB ha sufrido una pérdida característica en el poder estelar que ha precedido a cataclis

Los astrofísicos nos dicen que cualquier noche aparecerá en el cielo una nueva estrella, casi tan brillante como la Estrella del Norte, resultado de una explosión cósmica en una constelación distante hace milenios. La científica de la NASA Rebekah Hounsell lo ha llamado “un evento único en la vida que creará muchos nuevos astrónomos”. Sin embargo, una vez que lo veas, no te encariñes demasiado…

[astroefimerides]

Η σπάνια μυστηριωδης έκρηξη Nova,μετα απο 80 χρόνια στον αστερισμό του Corona Borealis, τα γεγονότα & οι επιπτώσεις

[infotrendz]

T Coronae Borealis or the TCrB, is a binary star system in the constellation called Corona Borealis. It is a recurrent nova star, meaning it has a history of outbursts, which is predicted to continue periodically after a fixed interval of about 80 earth years.

Before it appears back in its spot, just below this constellation, it dims completely for few years and again pops out suddenly as a super bright object in the northern sky, which can be visible by binoculars or even the naked eye.

READ THE STORY ABOUT THIS UNIQUE STAR BEFORE IT IS SEEN AGAIN IN 2024 ANYTIME SOON NOW, AS IT CAN A LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY!

[justbeautifulnaturevideos]

Aurora Borealis & Northern Lights - No Sound - 1 Hour

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Una impresionante nova visible a simple vista en 2024

Si los cálculos de los astrónomos son acertados, una constelación muy conocida podría transformar su apariencia de manera breve en el transcurso de 2024. Todo indicaría que una nova volverá a iluminar la región. La estrella en el epicentro de este fenómeno es T Coronae Borealis, también reconocida como ‘Blaze Star’ o T CrB. Situada en la esquina de la constelación Corona Borealis o Corona del…

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Lady of Guadalupe - Whisperings

The constellation Corona Borealis (The Northern. Crown) is on Our Lady's Head, the Constellation Virgo. (The Virgin) is over her heart, and the constellation Leo. (The Lion) is over her womb!

December 9, 1531

According to tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, a man of Aztec descent who had converted to Christianity, on December 9, 1531.

On December 12, 1531, an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the tilma of native Aztec, Juan Diego during his Marian apparition. Since then, scientists have struggled to explain just how the image got there.