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hip-3170
Its story
In Tucana, the exotic bird of the southern sky, shines a yellow G-type star 81 light-years away. Its warm light set out around the end of the Second World War, as Europe tried to rebuild itself among ruins and new borders. Close cousin of the Sun in colour and temperature, it now reaches us as a quiet echo amid the stylised feathers that Dutch navigators christened the toucan.
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 81.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 10.105° · Dec -59.455°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3170 · HD 3823
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