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Its story
In Cancer flickers an orange star, ancient and discreet. Its light crossed more than five centuries before reaching us: it set out around 1463, while Mehmed II completed his hold on Constantinople and Gutenberg's press spread its first books. Cooler than the Sun, its coppery glow rests among the modest stars of the celestial crab.
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 563.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 125.087° · Dec 20.748°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40866 · HD 69994
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