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hip-51194
Its story
In Carina, the keel of the southern Argo ship, a white A-class sun shines 223.3 light-years away. Hotter and brighter than our own, its light departed when European astronomers were travelling to observe the transit of Venus from remote corners of the planet and, by measuring parallaxes, calculating the real distance to the Sun for the first time.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 223.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 156.856° · Dec -65.705°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51194 · HD 90874
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