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hip-44511
Its story
A calm orange spark tucked into the southern reach of Vela, this K giant pours its light from roughly three hundred light-years away. The photon entering the pupil tonight set out when Isaac Newton was publishing the «Principia» and Europe was learning to read gravity as a cosmic affair. Late for the appointment, but here.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.75
- Distance
- 299.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 136.039° · Dec -47.098°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44511 · HD 78004
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