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hip-42008
Its story
1,647 light-years away, in vast Hydra, shines a yellow star, another G like the Sun but twenty centuries deeper into distance. Her light departed around the year 379, while the Roman Empire was splitting in two and the Goths were preparing to enter history. To see her is to see the Sun itself from an unimaginable remove.
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 1647.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 128.431° · Dec 4.757°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42008 · HD 72561
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