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hip-51623
Highly luminous starIts story
An A-class white of astonishing luminosity inhabits Carina, so distant that its light would take hundreds of thousands of years to cross space before reaching here. If its catalogued distance is confirmed, we would be looking at a star well beyond the usual bounds of the Milky Way, a pale beacon from a deeply prehistoric era. What we see today is only the very far echo of that antiquity.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 158.199° · Dec -58.667°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51623 · HD 91533
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