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hip-31121
Its story
In Monoceros, the unicorn of modest skies, glows an orange K-type giant nearly 700 light-years away. Its warm light set out in the days of Marco Polo, as the Venetian returned to Italy after decades at Kublai Khan's court. Cooler than the Sun yet markedly larger, it shines quietly between the edge of the Winter Triangle and the river of the Milky Way.
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.43
- Distance
- 698.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 97.959° · Dec -8.158°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31121 · HD 46229
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