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hip-12072
Its story
In the chained silhouette of Andromeda gleams an orange giant some 624 light-years away. Its light set off around 1402, when the Chinese fleet of Zheng He was preparing its treasures and the world had not yet glimpsed the routes of the modern Pacific. Cooler than the Sun but swollen by stellar ageing, its amber glow hangs in the night like a slow lantern.
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 623.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 38.911° · Dec 37.312°
- Catalogue
- HIP 12072 · HD 16028
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