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hip-11738
Its story
In the vast figure of Cetus, the celestial whale, an orange giant radiates from some 459 light-years away. Its light set out around 1567, when Philip II was reordering an empire said never to see the sun set. An old K-type star, larger and cooler than ours, its colour recalls the embers of a brazier at dawn.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.27
- Distance
- 459.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 37.875° · Dec 2.267°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11738 · HD 15694
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