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hip-27947
Its story
In the deep south, within the small constellation of Pictor, a yellow-white F-type star burns at 113 light-years. Its light left for us during the Parisian Belle Époque, as Marie Curie was at work on her doctoral thesis on radioactivity and Hiroshima was still decades away.
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.29
- Distance
- 113.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 88.709° · Dec -52.635°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27947 · HD 40292
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