Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of variable star, 1904, from Delta Cephi, the name of the first such star identified, which is in the dim northern constellation Cephus, named for Greek Kepheus, a mythical king. With -id.
Wiktionary
a. (context astronomy English) Relating to cepheid variables. n. (context star English) A cepheid variable.
Wikipedia
- Redirect Cepheid variable
Usage examples of "cepheid".
I made charts and calculations, identifying novalike variables, Cepheids, cool and hot stars, egg-shaped doubles.
Secondcousin, cruising in the neighborhood of a Cepheid variable down on his charts as 47391L, but otherwise known to the race he was shortly to discover as A Ursae Min.
A green globe appeared, pulsing like a Cepheid, going from one meter in diameter down to the size of a handball and back up again every few seconds.
In 1956, astronomers discovered that Cepheid variables were more variable than they had thought.
When you see the Beta Canis Majoris on the left you blink on the giant Cepheid on an angle of thirty-five to the galactic ecliptic to Auriga and after that it's a matter of blinking by the seat of your pants.
Therefore: Would I rather flit to the mainland and its bright lights, or have Chives phone the nearest cepheid agency?
She noticed that a type of star known as a Cepheid variable (after the constellation Cepheus, where it first was identified) pulsated with a regular rhythm—.
Nevertheless, Amalfi had hardly expected to see the return of He, under wholly controlled spindizzy drive, in barely a century and a half, still faintly, patchily blue-green with cultivation under cloud-banks which glared a brilliant white in the light of a nearby Cepheid variable star.
Why should beings with manlike biological requirements go from a dim red dwarf star to a planetless blue giant to a dying Cepheid variable?
He did not know a Cepheid variable from a constellation, so much of what she was trying to do was incomprehensible to him.
But the Small Cloud has been more extensively studied for some years, particularly its Cepheid variable stars.
I'm going to try and observe known Cepheid variables, take observations over a period of time, and if I can find as many as three that I can absolutely identify, I can compute where we are in relation to the central drift of the Galaxy.
For some stars, like Cepheid variables, the wobble occurs naturally.
About Henrietta Leavitt, the nineteenth-century Boston spinster who spent seventeen years studying Cepheid variables and found the first good way of measuring the size of the universe.
Some stars pulsed, like the Cepheid variables, but in an orderly way.