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Beta Mensae burns some 794 light-years away, distant even by the standards of its modest southern constellation. It is a yellow G-type star, a kind of aged Sun whose envelope has swollen well beyond the solar size; what we see today as a faint point left its surface in an era preceding the first telescopic observations.
- Constellation
- Mensa
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.30
- Distance
- 793.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 75.679° · Dec -71.314°
- Catalogue
- HIP 23467 · HD 33285
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