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hip-15479
Cool red starIts story
A cool red giant in tiny Fornax, almost a thousand light-years away. M-type stars at this distance tend to be bloated, patient, with surfaces cooler than the Sun's. The light crossing Fornax tonight set out around the year 1050, when the taifa kingdoms were fragmenting Al-Andalus and El Cid was barely a child.
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.63
- Distance
- 976.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 49.895° · Dec -24.123°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15479 · HD 20729
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