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hip-44923
Its story
Along the long southern Hydra glows a white A-type star about 273 light-years away. Its light began its journey around 1753, while Carl Linnaeus was publishing his «Species Plantarum» in Stockholm and naming the plants of the known world. Its white light, hotter than the Sun's, cuts through the night with the clarity of crystal.
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.73
- Distance
- 273.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 137.268° · Dec -18.329°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44923 · HD 78702
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