- Astrobiology is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events. As a discipline, astrobiology is founded on the premise that life may exist beyond Earth.
- Kitalpha (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
KITALPHA (Alpha Equulei). Most ancient constellations dominate their parts of the sky. A few, however, are remarkably obscure and hard to find, among them Equuleus, the Little Horse, its brightest star (Kitalpha) only mid-fourth magnitude (3.92).