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Cool red star

Its story

12 Ceti is a cool red M-type giant 567 light-years away in the Whale, that vast autumn-sky constellation. It belongs to the family of wide, lukewarm suns whose light carries the hue of mature copper. Its radiation set out in the High Middle Ages and now slips into modern telescopes, in a sky region where Mira Ceti once taught humanity what a variable star truly was.

Constellation: Cetus
Apparent magnitude: 5.72
Distance: 567.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 7.510° · Dec -3.957°
Catalogue: HIP 2353 · HD 2637

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