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Its story
Cetus is the whale or sea monster from the Andromeda myth, a huge and faint constellation. There shines this orange giant four hundred and forty-two light-years away. Its light set out around 1583, when Pope Gregory XIII had just imposed his new calendar across much of Catholic Europe. K-type, copper-coloured, no surprises: one of many warm embers populating the sky monster.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 442.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 35.521° · Dec -17.662°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11033 · HD 14728
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