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hip-60584
Cool red starIts story
71 Ursae Majoris lies 858 light-years away, in the region of the Great Bear. It is an M-type red giant, an old, dilated star far cooler than the Sun —barely half its surface temperature—. The light we see tonight set out while the Christian kingdoms of Iberia were waging the first skirmishes of the Reconquest. A slow flame whose nostalgia takes centuries to cross space.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 858.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 186.263° · Dec 56.778°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60584 · HD 108135
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