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Cool red star

Its story

Red and ancient in the small sketch of Corvus the Crow, this M giant reaches us from 982 light-years. Its light departed around the year 1043, while Bi Sheng was experimenting in China with movable-type printing —four centuries before Gutenberg. An old flame carrying an even older piece of news: that of its own existence.

Constellation: Corvus
Apparent magnitude: 5.63
Distance: 982.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 187.573° · Dec -23.696°
Catalogue: HIP 61015 · HD 108821

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