Aldebaran
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /alˈdɛbəɹən/
Origin
From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان ("the follower") (because it follows the Pleiades).
Full definition of Aldebaran
Proper noun
Aldebaran
(plural Aldebarans)- (star) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. from 14th c.
- circa 1390 John Gower, Confessio Amantis:To telle riht as he began,
The ferste sterre Aldeboran,
The cliereste and the moste of alle,
Be rihte name men it calle ... - 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.
- 2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, in The Guardian:The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.