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Highly luminous star

Its story

Beta Phoenicis is a graceful visual binary: two yellow G8III giants so alike they seem to mirror each other, separated by barely an arcsecond and completing a mutual orbit every 170 years on a slightly eccentric path. Its light, travelling from the southern bird of rebirth, requires a substantial telescope to split, and then reveals the subtle contrast of two aged suns shining in unison.

Constellation: Phoenix
Apparent magnitude: 3.32
Distance: 326200.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 16.521° · Dec -46.718°
Catalogue: HIP 5165 · HD 6595

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