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Double star, an Uncommon card
In observational astronomy, a double star or visual double is a pair of stars that appear close to each other as viewed from Earth, especially with the aid of optical telescopes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This occurs because the pair either forms a binary star or is an optical double, a chance line-of-sight alignment of two stars at different distances from the observer.
- Binary stars are important to stellar astronomers as knowledge of their motions allows direct calculation of stellar mass and other stellar parameters.
- The only case of "binary star" whose two components are separately visible to the naked eye is the case of Mizar and Alcor, but it is not known for certain whether Mizar and Alcor are gravitationally bound.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Double star article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Double star (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.