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Its story
The celestial unicorn —Monoceros, that quiet constellation between Orion and Canis Major— hosts a yellow-white F-type star 130 light-years away. Its light departed around 1896, just as Becquerel was discovering radioactivity and opening the door to twentieth-century physics. These photons, exact contemporaries of the radiant atom, arrive now at magnitude 5.75.
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 130.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 102.079° · Dec -1.319°
- Catalogue
- HIP 32617 · HD 49434
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