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Its story
Nu Aurigae is an orange giant of spectral type K, lying about 230 light-years away in the constellation of the Charioteer. Its amber tone contrasts with the white blaze of Capella, Auriga's jewel, offering anyone with binoculars a small study in stellar colour. It long ago left the main sequence and has swollen into a star decidedly larger than the Sun.
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.97
- Distance
- 230.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 87.872° · Dec 39.148°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27673 · HD 39003
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