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hip-43797
Its story
At only seventy-nine light-years, in the austral constellation Vela, this F-class yellow-white is a near neighbour by cosmic standards. Its light departed in 1947, the year Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier aboard the Bell X-1. Slightly hotter than the Sun, with a clean glow that recalls dawn moments before it fully clears.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.70
- Distance
- 78.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 133.799° · Dec -54.966°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43797 · HD 76653
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