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hip-102092
Cool red starIts story
In the modest Microscope, a constellation invented by Lacaille in the eighteenth century, pulses this red M-type star, about 450 light-years distant. Its light began its journey around 1573, when Tycho Brahe described a 'new star' in Cassiopeia and the medieval worldview started to crack. Far cooler than the Sun, its reddish tone recalls embers asleep at dawn. It arrives as a coppery message from the height of the Renaissance.
- Constellation
- Microscopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 453.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 310.349° · Dec -31.598°
- Catalogue
- HIP 102092 · HD 196917
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