hip-36388

Highly luminous star

Its story

Behind the Unicorn hides an orange giant whose light took 2,234.2 years to arrive. It set out when the Roman republic was seething under the Gracchi conflict, in the 2nd century BCE. It is a luminous class K star, far brighter than the Sun despite its temperate surface: an orange bonfire whose luminous echo crosses entire eras of human history.

Constellation: Monoceros
Apparent magnitude: 5.60
Distance: 2234.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 112.328° · Dec -1.905°
Catalogue: HIP 36388 · HD 59311

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