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hip-51046
Cool red starIts story
In the unobtrusive constellation of Sextans — an astronomical instrument turned figure by Hevelius — burns a red M-type giant, cool and vast. Its 397 light-years were born when Galileo was still pointing his spyglass at Jupiter and discovering its Medicean moons, quietly opening a new astronomy. The light now reaching us is coeval with those first telescopic observations that forever altered our place.
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 396.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 156.434° · Dec -7.060°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51046 · HD 90362
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