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Its story
In Vela shines a yellow giant some 750 light-years away. Its light set out when Marco Polo was returning to Venice with tales of the Far East and Gothic cathedrals were rising across France. It shares with the Sun the warm tone of quiet flames, yet outshines it in size and brilliance —offering a golden postcard to the southern half of the sky.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 749.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 128.021° · Dec -53.212°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41861 · HD 72737
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