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hip-24879
Highly luminous starIts story
19 Aurigae is a luminous A-type giant lying over two thousand light-years away, in one of the more densely populated corners of Auriga. Its light, emitted when the Roman Empire had not yet fallen, has been threading its way ever since through the dust of the Perseus Arm. To remain visible at magnitude 5 from such a distance, it must radiate with an intensity thousands of times that of the Sun.
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.05
- Distance
- 2077.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 80.004° · Dec 33.958°
- Catalogue
- HIP 24879 · HD 34578
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