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hip-11381
Its story
Cetus, the whale of the sky, holds this orange K-class star at 274 light-years. The light flickering in its wake tonight set out around 1752, the year Franklin proved with a kite that lightning was electricity and the sky was no longer the theologians' alone. A silent orange ember among the ribs of the cetacean.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 274.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 36.647° · Dec -20.043°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11381 · HD 15220
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