hip-33878

Cool red star

Its story

A red giant lost in Monoceros, the quiet unicorn between Orion and Canis Major. Her light —reddish, cool, ancient— has been travelling for 571 years: it left when Constantinople had just fallen to the Ottomans. M-class stars like this one are the most common in the universe and, paradoxically, the least visible to the naked eye.

Constellation: Monoceros
Apparent magnitude: 5.22
Distance: 571.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 105.485° · Dec -5.722°
Catalogue: HIP 33878 · HD 52666

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