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R Canis Majoris star
A semidetached eclipsing binary, in which the less massive component almost fills its Roche lobe. The prototype varies in brightness from magnitude 6.7 to 5.9 (roughly doubling) in a period of 27 hours.
Related entries
• close binary
• variable stars
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• TYPES OF STARS
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