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hip-40282
Cool red starIts story
In Vela, the sails of ancient Argo, drifts this red M-type giant 721 light-years from our shore. Its coppery light set out as the Iberian Christian kingdoms were pressing through the Reconquista, even before the founding of the University of Salamanca in 1218. Cooler than the Sun, swollen and amber, it is one of those stars that seem painted with autumn pigment.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 721.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 123.393° · Dec -50.196°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40282 · HD 69194
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