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hip-53723
Cool red starIts story
In Crater, the cup spilled by the crow in myth, beats a red M-type giant, far cooler than the Sun yet immense in size and luminosity. Its light took some 662 years to cross space: it set out around 1363, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War between France and England and while Europe was trying to recover from the Black Death. A cosmic ruby now settles at the bottom of the cup.
- Constellation
- Crater
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 661.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 164.879° · Dec -16.354°
- Catalogue
- HIP 53723 · HD 95234
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