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hip-50609
Highly luminous starIts story
A luminous K-class orange in Vela, 1,681 light-years away: a distance taking its light back to the 4th century, when Constantinople was only beginning to take shape as capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Its luminosity comfortably surpasses the Sun's—a warm giant burning while Europe crossed the end of Antiquity.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.66
- Distance
- 1681.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 155.070° · Dec -47.699°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50609 · HD 89736
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