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hip-45496
Cool red starIts story
On the keel of the ship Argo, a red giant burns with the weary calm of stars that have already lived long. Its light —deep orange, almost like old blood— travels 488 years to reach us: when it set out, Mozart was not yet born and the Viennese court was rehearsing its first operas. Bloated and cool compared with the Sun, it announces, in the silent language of the cosmos, the serene old age of stars that were once young and white.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.34
- Distance
- 488.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 139.050° · Dec -57.541°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45496 · HD 80230
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