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Tau-2
Its story
Tau-2 Hydrae is a white A-type star more than five hundred light-years away, set within the immense winding of the sky's longest constellation. Hydra crosses over a quarter of the celestial vault and still echoes the hundred-headed monster slain by Heracles. Tau-2 occupies a hushed stretch of its body —the starlit desert that demands patience and dark sky to reveal itself.
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.54
- Distance
- 517.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.996° · Dec -1.185°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46776 · HD 82446
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