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Lam
Its story
Lambda Pyxidis is a yellow giant with twice the Sun's mass and a radius swollen at the pace of an aging star, set within the sailor's small Compass at 192 light-years. Pyxis is one of the sky's youngest constellations —Lacaille drew it in the 18th century to honour navigation—, and Lambda is one of its naked-eye anchor points.
- Constellation
- Pyxis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.71
- Distance
- 192.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 140.801° · Dec -28.834°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46026 · HD 81169
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