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hip-48374
Highly luminous starIts story
More than a thousand light-years deep into Vela, a yellow giant pours out a luminosity far beyond our own Sun. The beam Hipparcos measured in the nineties departed when the Vikings were founding Dublin and the caliphates were consolidating the Mediterranean. It arrives now like a candle lit centuries ago, still steady, still golden.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.58
- Distance
- 1055.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 147.919° · Dec -46.548°
- Catalogue
- HIP 48374 · HD 85622
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