What is 36 Ursae Majoris?
'''36 Ursae Majoris''' is a [[star]], slightly larger and hotter than the [[Sun]],<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/101 | title=Stellar Diameters and Temperatures. I. Main-Sequence A, F, and G Stars | year=2012 | last1=Boyajian | first1=Tabetha S. | last2=McAlister | first2=Harold A. | last3=Van Belle | first3=Gerard | last4=Gies | first4=Douglas R. | last5=Ten Brummelaar | first5=Theo A. | last6=von Braun | first6=Kaspar | last7=Farrington | first7=Chris | last8=Goldfinger | first8=P. J. | last9=O'Brien | first9=David | last10=Parks | first10=J. Robert | last11=Richardson | first11=Noel D. | last12=Ridgway | first12=Stephen | last13=Schaefer | first13=Gail | last14=Sturmann | first14=Laszlo | last15=Sturmann | first15=Judit | last16=Touhami | first16=Yamina | last17=Turner | first17=Nils H. | last18=White | first18=Russel | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=746 | issue=1 | page=101 | arxiv=1112.3316 | bibcode=2012ApJ...746..101B | s2cid=18993744 }}</ref> located nearly 42 [[light year|light years]] away in the exclusively northern [[constellation]] of [[Ursa Major]].<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20078357 | title=Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction | year=2007 | last1=Van Leeuwen | first1=F. | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics | volume=474 | issue=2 | pages=653–664 | arxiv=0708.1752 | bibcode=2007A&A...474..653V | s2cid=18759600 }}</ref> It is possible that the star has [[planet|planets]] or [[brown dwarf|brown dwarfs]] orbiting it.<ref>{{cite journal | bibcode=1983PASP...95..775L | title=An unseen companion to 36 Ursae Majoris a from analysis of plates taken with the Sproul 61-cm refractor | last1=Lippincott | first1=S. L. | journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | year=1983 | volume=95 | page=775 | doi=10.1086/131252 | s2cid=120550865 }}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Stars]] {{Physics-stub}}