Algol is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 42 anagrams from letters in ALGOL (agllo).
1350-1400; Middle English Arabic, equivalent to al the + ghūl ghoul; as translation of Greek (Ptolemy) gorgónion the head of the Gorgon Medusa, held by Perseus
Every third night Algol has its light reduced for several hours.
It will be seen that this star combines the Algol and Beta Lyr types.
Algenib and Algol form with γ Andromedæ, a right-angled triangle.
It is to the second of these types that Algol is supposed to belong.
A feature of all the Algol variables is the shortness of the periods.
The most easterly one is β Persei, known as Algol, the famous variable.
Mr. Gore thinks that the companion of Algol may be a star of the sixth magnitude.
It was first supposed to be of the Algol type, with a period of about two days.
It is Algol,judged by superstitious folk to be an evil star.
Mention has been made of a slight irregularity in Algol's period of variation.
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