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hip-14862
Its story
Within Cassiopeia's W-shaped throne burns this white type A star, 165 light-years away. Her light departed around 1860, while Pasteur was defending germ theory and America was sinking into civil war. She bears no written legend: only the heat of her hydrogen fusing, identical to Vega's, identical to Sirius'.
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.85
- Distance
- 165.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 47.984° · Dec 74.394°
- Catalogue
- HIP 14862 · HD 19275
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