diff --git a/knowledge/astronomy/constellations/Phoenix/attribution.txt b/knowledge/astronomy/constellations/Phoenix/attribution.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..049fd9ae93 --- /dev/null +++ b/knowledge/astronomy/constellations/Phoenix/attribution.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Title of work: Phoenix (constellation) +Link to work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(constellation) +Revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phoenix_(constellation)&oldid=1221597018 +License of the work: CC-BY-SA-4.0 +Creator names: Wikipedia Authors diff --git a/knowledge/astronomy/constellations/Phoenix/qna.yaml b/knowledge/astronomy/constellations/Phoenix/qna.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ac014b4df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/knowledge/astronomy/constellations/Phoenix/qna.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +created_by: jjasghar +version: 2 +domain: constellation +seed_examples: + - answer: Phoenix is a minor constellation in the southern sky + question: What is the Phoenix constellation? + - answer: Alpha Phoenicis or Ankaa + question: What is the brightest star called? + - answer: Beta Phoenicis + question: What is the second brightest star called? + - answer: | + Phoenix is a small constellation bordered by Fornax and Sculptor to the north, Grus to the west, Tucana to + the south, touching on the corner of Hydrus to the south, and Eridanus to the east and southeast. The bright + star Achernar is nearby. + question: What are the characteristics of the Phoenix constellation + - answer: Richard Allen was a celestial historian. + question: Who was Richard Allen? + - answer: | + Phoenix is a minor constellation in the southern sky. Named after the mythical phoenix, it was first depicted + on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria. + question: What is the phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + The brightest star, Alpha Phoenicis, is named Ankaa, an Arabic word meaning 'the Phoenix'. + It is an orange giant of apparent magnitude 2.4. + question: What is the brightest start in the phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + The constellation does not lie on the galactic plane of the Milky Way, and there are no prominent star clusters. + question: Does the constellation exist on the galactic plane? + - answer: | + The constellation is named after the mythical bird that can burn and resurrect itself from its ashes. + question: How was the phoenix constellation named? + - answer: | + This constellation was invented by Pieter Dircksz Keyser, a navigator who joined the first Dutch expedition to + the East Indies in 1595 and who added 12 new constellations in the southern skies. + question: What is the brightest start in the constellation? + - answer: | + Phoenix is the radiant of two annual meteor showers, the Phoenicids in December, and the July Phoenicids. + The Phoenicids, also known as the December Phoenicids, were first observed on 3 December 1887. + question: Is there anything interesting happening in the are around the Phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + The constellation does not lie on the galactic plane of the Milky Way, and there are no prominent star clusters. + NGC 625 is a dwarf irregular galaxy of apparent magnitude 11.0 and lying some 12.7 million light years distant. + Only 24000 light years in diameter, it is an outlying member of the Sculptor Group. + Lying within the bounds of the constellation is the gigantic Phoenix cluster, which is around 7.3 million + light years wide and 5.7 billion light years away, making it one of the most massive galaxy clusters. It + was first discovered in 2010, and the central galaxy is producing an estimated 740 new stars a year. Larger + question: Are there any deep sky objets arround the Phoenix Constellation? + - answer: | + Ten stars have been found to have planets to date, and four planetary systems have been discovered with the + SuperWASP project. HD 142 is a yellow giant that has an apparent magnitude of 5.7, and has a planet + 1.36 times the mass of Jupiter which orbits every 328 days. HD 2039 is a yellow subgiant with an apparent + magnitude of 9.0 around 330 light years away which has a planet (HD 2039 b) six times the mass of Jupiter. + question: Are there any planets surrounding the stars in the Phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + The constellation stretches from roughly −39 to −57 declination + question: What is the declination range for Phoenix ? + - answer: | + Phoenix is most visible from locations such as Australia and South Africa during late Southern Hemisphere spring + question: When is the phoenix most visible ? + - answer: | + The Phoenicids, also known as the December Phoenicids, were first observed on 3 December 1887 + question: What is the other name for Phoenicids + - answer: | + Ankaa is the brightest star in the constellation + question: | + Which is the largest of the 12 constellations established by Petrus Plancius from the observations of + Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman? + - answer: | + Johann Bayer + question: Who first depicted Phoenix? + - answer: | + Alpha Phoenicis + question: Which is the brightest star in the Phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + Fornax and Sculptor to the north, Grus to the west, Tucana to the south, touching on the corner of Hydrus to + the south, and Eridanus to the east and southeast + question: What borders the Phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + Phoenix is the radiant of two annual meteor showers, the Phoenicids in December, and the July Phoenicids. + question: How mny radiant meteor showers annually? + - answer: Southern Sky + question: Where is phoenix constellation found? + - answer: Phoenix, Grus, Pavo and Tucana + question: what comprises the southern birds? + - answer: Ankaa + question: what is the brightest star in the constellation? + - answer: al phe + question: what is the eclipsing binary star? + - question: When was the constellation Phoenix defined? + answer: | + It first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Petrus + Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. It was first depicted on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 + Uranometria. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted the brighter stars and gave + their Bayer designations in 1756. + - question: What notable Deep-sky objects are in the constellation? + answer: | + Lying within the bounds of the constellation is the gigantic Phoenix cluster, which is around 7.3 million + light years wide and 5.7 billion light years away, making it one of the most massive galaxy clusters. + - question: What notable black hole is in the constellation? + answer: | + The first intermediate-mass black hole HLX-1, is within the galaxy ESO 243-49, which is within the constellation + - question: What is the brightest star in the constellation? + answer: | + Alpha Phi, called Ankaa, is the brightest star in the constellation. It is an orange giant of apparent + visual magnitude 2.37 and spectral type K0.5IIIb, 77 light years distant from Earth and orbited by a + secondary object about which little is known. + - question: What is the designation of the constellation? + answer: | + The formal abbreviation of the constellation is Phe and it has the genitive form of Phoenicis + - answer: | + The constellation does not lie on the galactic plane of the Milky Way, and there are no prominent star clusters + question: Is there star clusters? + - answer: | + Who is the radiant of two annual meteor showers. + question: Phoenix is the radiant of two annual meteor showers. + - answer: | + A curved line of stars comprising Alpha, Kappa, Mu, Beta, Nu and Gamma Phoenicis was seen as a boat by the + ancient Arabs. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and designated 27 stars + with the Bayer designations Alpha through to Omega in 1756. + question: A curved line of stars comprise of which stars ? + - answer: | + Nu Phoenicis is a yellow-white main sequence star of spectral type F9V and magnitude 4.96 + question: Which is yellow-white main sequence star of spectral type ? + - answer: | + The constellation is named after the mythical phoenix. + question: What is the Phoenix constellation named after? + - answer: | + The brightest star, Alpha Phoenicis, is named Ankaa, an Arabic word meaning 'the Phoenix'. It is an orange + giant of apparent visual magnitude 2.37 and spectral type K0.5IIIb, 77 light years distant from Earth and + orbited by a secondary object about which little is known. + question: What is the brightest star in the Phoenix constellation? + - answer: | + Phoenix is the radiant of two annual meteor showers. The Phoenicids, also known as the December Phoenicids, + were first observed on 3 December 1887. The shower was particularly intense in December 1956, and is thought + related to the breakup of the short-period comet 289P/Blanpain. + question: Is the Phoenix constellation the radiant of any meteor showers? + - answer: | + The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. + question: Where was the Phoenix constellation first depicted in a celestial atlas? + - answer: | + The constellations Phoenix, Grus, Pavo and Tucana, are known as the Southern Birds. + question: Which constellations are known as the Southern Birds? + - answer: | + The constellation does not lie on the galactic plane of the Milky Way, and there are no prominent star clusters + question: Is there star clusters? + - answer: | + Who is the radiant of two annual meteor showers. + question: Phoenix is the radiant of two annual meteor showers. + - answer: | + A curved line of stars comprising Alpha, Kappa, Mu, Beta, Nu and Gamma Phoenicis was seen as a boat by the + ancient Arabs. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and designated 27 stars with + the Bayer designations Alpha through to Omega in 1756. + question: A curved line of stars comprise of which stars ? + - answer: | + Which is brightest Star? + question: Ankaa is the brightest star in the constellation. + - answer: | + Nu Phoenicis is a yellow-white main sequence star of spectral type F9V and magnitude 4.96 + question: Which is yellow-white main sequence star of spectral type ? +task_description: 'Some facts about the Southern Phoenix Constellation' +document: + repo: https://github.com/juliadenham/Summit_knowledge + commit: 8a73952a8cc0ca8443d254f8538df02e17b5be92 + patterns: + - phoenix_constellation.md