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Alp
Cool red starIts story
Alpha Lyncis is the only star of Lynx the Greek alphabet bothered to label; the rest of the constellation is a hunting ground of faint glimmers said to require lynx eyes to discern. It is a red giant swollen to nearly sixty solar radii, burning with the calm orange glow of a sun that has long since exhausted its hydrogen.
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.14
- Distance
- 203.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 140.264° · Dec 34.393°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45860 · HD 80493
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