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Its story
In Cetus, the cosmic whale grazing along the celestial equator, shines this yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter than the Sun. Its light set out around 1939, when Edwin Armstrong demonstrated FM radio and the world first glimpsed clean sound. It now reaches Earth as a continuous broadcast, free of static, from 87 years ago.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.22
- Distance
- 87.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 11.185° · Dec -22.006°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3505 · HD 4247
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