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Omi
Its story
ο Virginis shines calmly within the Virgin, yet it hides an invisible companion. It is a binary system: a yellow giant eleven times the Sun, paired with a small white dwarf circling every 50.7 years. When that dwarf was once a dying giant, it sprayed its partner with heavy elements forged in nuclear fire. Today the giant still bears that chemical signature —a barium star.
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.12
- Distance
- 163.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 181.302° · Dec 8.733°
- Catalogue
- HIP 58948 · HD 104979
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