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hip-40693
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In Puppis lives a surprisingly close orange star: barely 41 light-years separate us. Its light set out around 1985, when the ozone hole was discovered and the Internet was born with its very first domains. Cooler and smaller than the Sun, it is a quiet neighbour burning with patience, like a candle seen from the next room.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 40.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 124.600° · Dec -12.632°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40693 · HD 69830
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