hip-51849

Highly luminous star

Its story

Far down the southern sky, within the constellation Carina, glows a K-type orange giant whose light takes nearly 1,178 years to reach us. The radiance arriving tonight set out in the late eighth century, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the West. Its luminosity vastly exceeds the Sun's, a quiet reminder that older, grander furnaces still burn beyond our own.

Constellation: Carina
Apparent magnitude: 4.45
Distance: 1177.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 158.897° · Dec -57.558°
Catalogue: HIP 51849 · HD 91942

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