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hip-60308
Highly luminous starIts story
In the Southern Cross burns a highly luminous orange K-type star about 2265 light-years away. Its light set out around 240 BCE, while Eratosthenes in Alexandria first measured the circumference of the Earth. Although cooler than the Sun, its great size makes it thousands of times more brilliant.
- Constellation
- Crux
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 2265.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 185.489° · Dec -56.374°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60308 · HD 107543
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