hip-52154

Highly luminous star

Its story

In the southern constellation of Vela burns a yellow giant whose light took some 841 years to reach us. When it set out, Europe was raising its Gothic cathedrals and Marco Polo was traversing the Silk Road. Though it shares the golden hue of our Sun, its intrinsic brightness places it tens of times above —a mature, luminous echo of what we were once.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 4.29
Distance: 840.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 159.827° · Dec -55.603°
Catalogue: HIP 52154 · HD 92449

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