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n. - The 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the constellation Bootes.

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  • Arcturus comes from the Greek word -- Αρκτούρος -- meaning "bear guard."
  • There was one pedantic point that really annoyed me about this book: Arcturus is spelt incorrectly throughout, missing the first 'r'.
  • Neither Arcturus, which is mentioned in the Book of Job, nor Sirius, which attracted the attention of Homer, who compared the brightness of
  • And yet what is that compared with the distance of the fixed stars, some of which, such as Arcturus, are billions of miles distant from us?
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