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hip-50546
Its story
In Ursa Major, neighbour of the Big Dipper, glows an orange K-type star about 145 light-years away —an intimate distance on cosmic scales—. Its light set out around 1881, while Thomas Edison was lighting the first electrical grids in Manhattan and the urban night was changing forever. Cooler than the Sun, it offers that amber tone that comforts like a candle.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 144.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 154.862° · Dec 48.397°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50546 · HD 89319
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