It is considered Arcturus star One of the three stars that can be observed in the dome of the sky, and they flash in several colors at this time of the year. the sun.
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It is observed every year at this time that there are three stars that sparkle in different colors, one of them is Al-Ayyuk, which is currently in the northeastern horizon at midnight, and the other is the Yemeni star Sirius, which is currently observed in the southern horizon at dawn.
The third star is the Arctic fish that sparkles with different colors seen with the naked eye for the same reason related to Sirius and Al-Ayuk, because these three stars are bright and at this time of the year they are low in the sky.
An object is detected low in the sky. We see it through a dense layer of the atmosphere, unlike when it is high in the sky. The atmosphere breaks and separates the star’s light, which makes these stars twinkle in multiple colors.
Arcturus is an orange star that is 26 times larger than the sun, and it appears as just a point of light in the Earth’s sky due to the distance that separates us from it, which is 37 light years. This star will be monitored during the coming weeks of October, and it will be noticed that the star begins to decrease with the passage of days.