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hip-43603
Its story
Orange and silent, this K-type giant rides through Vela, the southern remnant of the old Argo Navis. Its light crossed 698 years of void to reach this sky: it set out as Dante had just died in Ravenna and the Divine Comedy was beginning to circulate in handwritten copies through the Italian courts.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 698.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 133.200° · Dec -38.724°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43603 · HD 76110
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