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hip-26536
Its story
26 Aurigae is a double system in the Charioteer, where two stars of different natures share a single point of light: one more yellow and evolved, the other whiter and younger. The distance, poorly constrained by parallax, places the pair around five hundred light-years away. What is seen from here is the sum of two distinct spectra that the eye can never split apart.
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.40
- Distance
- 566.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 84.659° · Dec 30.492°
- Catalogue
- HIP 26536 · HD 37269
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