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Mira Ceti

/ ˈmaɪrə ˈsiːtaɪ /

noun

  1. a binary star one component of which, a red supergiant, is a long-period variable with an average period of 332 days
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

A remarkably bright maximum of the famous variable Mira Ceti occurred in 1906.

Mira Ceti, which in 5 months increases its brightness 1000 times, may stand as an example.

He found that the star Mira Ceti was for several months invisible to the naked eye; then it grew brighter and brighter, and finally disappeared for months, as before.

His first paper had been upon the variable star Mira Ceti.

But I imagine that if they had to live within the precincts of Mira Ceti they would cry out for exemption from their own law of stellar utility.

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