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hip-39957
Its story
On the keel of Argo, Carina, shines a white A-type star 394 light-years away. Its light set out as Galileo, confined to his villa at Arcetri, finished his Discourses on Two New Sciences. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it is one of the southern hemisphere's quiet beacons —only making full sense when one pictures the mythic ship cutting through the seas of the sky.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.66
- Distance
- 394.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 122.390° · Dec -56.085°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39957 · HD 68434
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