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Northern polar star

Its story

Near the celestial north pole, within the throne of Cepheus, shines a yellow-white star 138 light-years away. Its light set out around 1888, the year Van Gogh was painting his «Starry Night over the Rhône». F-type stars are slightly hotter cousins of the Sun: they live less but also more vibrantly, marking the sky with a barely golden white.

Constellation: Cepheus
Apparent magnitude: 5.84
Distance: 137.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 62.501° · Dec 86.626°
Catalogue: HIP 19454 · HD 22701

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