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Gomez's Hamburger

pre-main-sequence star surrounded by a dense protoplanetary disk
Place a_type_star Q389184
Gomez's Hamburger
Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: A. Gomez (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory) · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
A-type star, pre-main-sequence star, Mid-infrared source, near-infrared source[3][4][5]
Apparent magnitude
12.1 (12.1–14.3, n=5)[19][20][21][22][23]
Catalog code
AKARI-IRC-V1 J1809133-321049, IRAS 18059-3211, 2MASS J18091339-3210500, TIC 56740304, WISEA J180913.39-321050.4, WISE J180913.39-321050.4, EQ 180556-321134[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Constellation
Sagittarius[6]
Declination
-32.1806834[30]
Discoverer or inventor
Arturo Gómez[2]
Distance from Earth
250 (250–2.9k, n=3)[26][27][28]
Epoch
J2000.0[31]
Mass
+2.5, +0.2[24][25]
Named after
Arturo Gómez, hamburger[8][9]
Right ascension
+272.3058250[29]
Site of astronomical discovery
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory[7]
Spectral class
A0III[10]
Time of discovery or invention
May 1985[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en GoHam en Gomez Nebula en Gomez Pre-planetary Nebula en Gomez's Hamburger es Hamburguesa de Gomez es Hamburguesa de Gómez fr Hamburger de Gomez it Hamburger di Gomez ja ゴメスのハンバーガー ja ゴメス星雲 pl Hamburger Gomeza pt Hamburger do Gomez ru Гамбургер Гомеса
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Freebase ID
/m/029jvq
SIMBAD ID
IRAS 18059-3211

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
pre-main-sequence star, A-type star
Constellation 1
Sagittarius
Epoch 1
J2000.0
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
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Summary

Gomez's Hamburger is an A-type star[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . The physical conditions in Gomez's Hamburger (IRAS 18059-3211), a pre-MS rotating disk. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . VizieR. wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . IRAS 18059-3211: optically known as "Gomez's Hamburger". wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . IRAS 18059-3211: optically known as "Gomez's Hamburger". wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . IRAS 18059-3211: optically known as "Gomez's Hamburger". wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . IRAS 18059-3211: optically known as "Gomez's Hamburger". wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003). wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003). wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003). wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003). wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003). wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . A three-dimensional view of Gomez’s hamburger. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . A three-dimensional view of Gomez’s hamburger. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . IRAS 18059-3211: optically known as "Gomez's Hamburger". wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . hubblesite.org. hubblesite.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . A three-dimensional view of Gomez’s hamburger. wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . AllWISE Data Release. wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . AllWISE Data Release. wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Huntster · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → A-type star, pre-main-sequence star, Mid-infrared source +1
    Epoch → J2000.0
    Declination → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '-32.1806834'}
    Constellation → Sagittarius
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: planetary nebula"
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