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hip-40155
Variable starIts story
A yellow-white variable of Vela, 2,450 light-years away —already in the depths of the galaxy. Its light set out for us when Aristotle was teaching at the Lyceum and Greek classical culture was at the peak of its intellectual maturity. When that light began its journey, the Library of Alexandria had not yet been built.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.77
- Distance
- 2452.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 123.000° · Dec -46.644°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40155 · HD 68808
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