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hip-16870
Its story
Two hundred and thirty light-years out, lost in the bends of Eridanus, this orange dwarf burns with the calm of K-type stars —less fierce than the Sun, more patient. Its light set out toward us when James Watt was patenting his steam engine and Europe stood, unaware, on the threshold of the Industrial Revolution.
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.57
- Distance
- 230.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 54.274° · Dec -40.275°
- Catalogue
- HIP 16870 · HD 22663
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