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hip-17797
Its story
It shines within Eridanus, the celestial river that winds across the southern sky. Its white A-type light set off some 165 years ago, just as Charles Darwin published «On the Origin of Species» and rewrote our understanding of life. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it belongs to that lineage of young suns that lend the southern nights their mineral gleam.
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.30
- Distance
- 165.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 57.149° · Dec -37.620°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17797 · HD 24071
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