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hip-10440
Its story
Yellow Sun-like in the bird of the Phoenix —a constellation named by Dutch navigators as a symbol of rebirth— this G-star sent its light out 344 years ago. It set out near 1682, the year Halley's comet last returned before it had a name and the sky still answered to no human prediction.
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 344.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 33.633° · Dec -41.167°
- Catalogue
- HIP 10440 · HD 13940
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