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hip-52948
Its story
In Sextans dwells a yellow G-type star, distant cousin to the Sun in color but more sprawling and aged. Its 341 light-years set off while Newton was publishing his Principia Mathematica and universal gravitation was passing from intuition to law. That light, contemporary with celestial mechanics, now arrives obedient to the very calculus it once helped inspire.
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.85
- Distance
- 340.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 162.431° · Dec -9.853°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52948 · HD 93833
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