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Gam
Its story
The fourth-brightest light in Centaurus after Alpha, Beta and Theta, Gamma Centauri looks like a single white dot to the unaided eye, yet it is in truth a pair of near-twin subgiants orbiting each other every 83 years. Its classical name Muhlifain, from Arabic for «those who have sworn an oath», unknowingly describes the tight waltz of two blue suns 130 light-years away.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.20
- Distance
- 130.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 190.380° · Dec -48.960°
- Catalogue
- HIP 61932 · HD 110304
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