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Eta-2
Cool red starIts story
Eta-2 Doradus is a red giant at 641 light-years, lit in a southern constellation that most Europeans will never have the chance to see in their lifetime. Its reddish hue marks a cool surface and a vast atmosphere, swollen at the end of its nuclear life. It glows quietly near the Large Magellanic Cloud, in a region of sky that knows very little human history.
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.01
- Distance
- 640.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 92.813° · Dec -65.589°
- Catalogue
- HIP 29353 · HD 43455
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