hip-100501

Cool red star

Its story

A red M-type giant burns with ancient slowness in the Swan, cosmic plumage spread across the Milky Way. Its light began its journey more than eight hundred years ago, when medieval kings were signing the Magna Carta and the embryo of modern rights was being born. Far cooler than the Sun yet immense in size, it bathes the night in a deep red that only stars in their maturity know how to paint.

Constellation: Cygnus
Apparent magnitude: 5.95
Distance: 845.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 305.689° · Dec 41.026°
Catalogue: HIP 100501 · HD 194193

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