R Doradus (HD 29712 or P Doradus) is a red giant variable star in the far-southern constellation Dorado, close to the border with Reticulum. Its distance...

Earth-observed angular diameter of Betelgeuse is exceeded only by those of R Doradus and the Sun. Starting in October 2019, Betelgeuse began to dim noticeably...

of S Doradus variable stars. The variable star R Doradus 5.73 has the largest-known apparent size of any star other than the Sun. Gamma Doradus is the...

from the Sun, the star with the largest angular diameter from Earth is R Doradus, a red giant with a diameter of 0.05″. Because of the effects of atmospheric...

The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), forming its south-east corner (from Earth's...

a near-infrared J band magnitude of −2.2, only Betelgeuse (−2.9) and R Doradus (−2.6) are brighter. The lower output in visible light is due to a lower...

lower temperatures but with radii reaching up to many tens of thousands of R☉, comparable to some of the largest known black holes. The angular diameters...

distance D, expressed in arcseconds, is given by: δ = 206 , 265   ( d / D )   a r c s e c o n d s {\displaystyle \delta =206,265~(d/D)~\mathrm {arcseconds}...

96755 Hubble Space Telescope May 1990 TrES-2 Kepler Space Telescope 2008 R Doradus Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite August 7, 2018 2MASS J17554042+6551277...

S Doradus was still uncertain, considered possibly to be a pre-main-sequence star, but during the next decade the consensus settled on the S Doradus type...