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Tau
Its story
Tau Centauri shines with the white elegance characteristic of A-type stars, some 131 light-years away in the vast southern Centaurus. Its light is younger and hotter than the Sun's, marked by the bluish sharpness typical of stars still living fully off hydrogen fusion in their core.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.85
- Distance
- 131.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 189.426° · Dec -48.541°
- Catalogue
- HIP 61622 · HD 109787
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