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Its story
In the Dove that flies beneath Lepus shines an orange K-class star, whose light set out some 614 years ago, when the Chinese shipyards were launching Zheng He's enormous vessels into the Indian Ocean. K stars are cooler than the Sun, golden in tone, common in ancient clusters where their warm shade contrasts with the blue giants.
- Constellation
- Columba
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.54
- Distance
- 614.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 90.318° · Dec -33.912°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28524 · HD 41047
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