Kap

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Kappa Leporis is a stellar pair some 728 light-years away, in the small constellation of the Hare crouched at Orion's feet. The primary is a blue-white B9 star, nearly five times the Sun's mass, with a surface temperature near 11,588 K and shining thirteen hundred times brighter than our own sun. Its much fainter companion traces a silent orbit around it on timescales counted in millennia.

Constellation: Lepus
Apparent magnitude: 4.36
Distance: 728.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 78.308° · Dec -12.941°
Catalogue: HIP 24327 · HD 33949

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