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hip-58427
Highly luminous starIts story
Set into the side of the Southern Cross, this white A-class star belongs to the extreme luminaries: so far away that its light has crossed entire ages of the universe before arriving. When it set out, the word «humanity» did not yet exist in any spoken tongue. It burns with the power of a beacon hurled into the depths of the cosmos, fastened to the most recognised symbol of the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Crux
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 179.699° · Dec -64.340°
- Catalogue
- HIP 58427 · HD 104035
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