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hip-3849
Its story
Within Cetus the whale glows an orange K-type star 278 light years away. Its light set out while Louis XIV was moving his court to the newly finished palace of Versailles. Cooler than the Sun yet older and dilated, it radiates with a warm, golden hue, like the slow ember of a fire that refuses to die.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 277.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 12.357° · Dec -13.561°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3849 · HD 4730
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