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What color star is Merak?
Merak is a greenish white star
What is the size of the star Merak in the Big Dipper?
Its mass is 2.7 times that of our sun whil its radius is 3.02 times as large.
What is the brightness of the merak star?
Merak is a star, not a constellation. Merak and Dubhe are the two "pointer" stars at the lip of the Big Dipper, that point to Polaris in the northern sky. Merak is an "A1" spectral class "white" star, about 3 times more massive than the Sun, and correspondingly hotter.
What type of star merak?
it is a white main sequence star
What are the name of the pointer star?
Merak and Dubhe
Why does the luminosity of the star depend on both its radius and its temperature?
The bigger the star's radius, the greater its surface area which emits the light. The bigger the temperature, the more luminous is the light the star is emitting.
What is Merak's surface temperature?
About 9100 degrees Celsius.
How far is merak the star from earth?
78 light years
How far is merak from earth?
Merak is a star in the Big Dipper constellation, which is part of our Milky Way galaxy. The distance between Earth and Merak is about 79.7 light-years.
What type of star is Merak?
Merak is a blue-white main sequence star, also known as a type A1V star. It is part of the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) constellation and is approximately 79 light-years away from Earth.
Where is merak located exactly?
Merak is a star located at the zodiac sign "grand bear". You can only see it by night on the nothern hemisphere. It is visible the whole year with eyes only.
Why are Dubhe and Merak called pointers?
because they have three star in the solar by melinda Myers
