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hip-49164
Highly luminous starIts story
In Carina burns an exceptionally luminous white A-type star, lying at an immense distance: hundreds of thousands of light-years, on the far outskirts of the Milky Way or beyond. The light captured today set out deep in the Ice Age, long before any written record of humanity. Tens of thousands of times brighter than the Sun, it is a white bonfire whose mere existence challenges intuition.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 150.500° · Dec -60.421°
- Catalogue
- HIP 49164 · HD 87283
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