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hip-46371
Its story
This orange star in Hydra shines with the unhurried calm of an evolved giant, 156.6 light-years away. Its light set out while Maxwell was publishing his equations of electromagnetism and astronomers were just beginning to classify stars by colour. A class K sun, cooler and redder than ours, drifting through the long twilight of maturity with the dignity of an ancient ember.
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.72
- Distance
- 156.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 141.827° · Dec -22.344°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46371 · HD 81799
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