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hip-15968
Its story
In the small Hydrus, the southern water serpent, shines a yellow-white F-type star about 129 light-years away. Its light set out around 1897, the year J.J. Thomson discovered the electron and matter lost its last solidity. Hotter and whiter than the Sun, its gleam slides like a thread of water among the rings of the southern serpent.
- Constellation
- Hydrus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 128.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 51.401° · Dec -69.336°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15968 · HD 21722
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