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hip-50241
Its story
In the sails of Vela burns an orange K-type giant, about 507 light-years away. Its light set out around 1519, the year Magellan sailed from Seville with five ships and one idea: to circle the world. It is far cooler than the Sun yet overwhelmingly more luminous, a swollen copper lamp suspended over the southern seas.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 507.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 153.882° · Dec -43.112°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50241 · HD 89062
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