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hip-63948
Its story
39 Comae Berenices is an F-type binary star 162 light-years away, detected as both an X-ray and infrared source. It lives in Coma Berenices, the hair of the Egyptian queen that gave the constellation its name, a region rich in clusters and distant galaxies. Its light departed in the 1860s, in the midst of the Victorian scientific revolution.
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 162.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 196.589° · Dec 21.153°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63948 · HD 113848
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