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hip-48613
Its story
A white star in Vela, the sail of the ancient ship Argo. Its light crossed 302 years to reach our telescopes: it set out when Newton was still publishing editions of his Principia and Peter the Great was modernising Russia from Saint Petersburg. An A-class star, hotter than the Sun, it radiates with a clean white the ancient astronomers associated with the noblest stars in the sky.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.71
- Distance
- 302.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 148.714° · Dec -50.244°
- Catalogue
- HIP 48613 · HD 86087
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