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hip-43142
Its story
In the immense Hydra, the water serpent that coils through half the sky, shines this white A-type star at 401 light-years. Its light set out while the Netherlands was living its Golden Age and Rembrandt was composing his chiaroscuros. With a hotter and more electric surface than the Sun, it is one of those white stars that seem moulded in alabaster.
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.28
- Distance
- 401.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 131.812° · Dec -1.897°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43142 · HD 74988
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