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Its story
Within Pisces glows an orange K-type giant, cooler than the Sun yet noticeably larger in size. Its light has been on the road for a thousand years: it departed when Avicenna was writing the «Canon of Medicine» and Islamic scholarship was bridging Greece with medieval Europe. After a thousand light-years, that warm, constant tone arrives tonight as a silent echo of a millennium in which science, far from dying, simply changed hands so as never to be lost.
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 1000.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 20.854° · Dec 20.469°
- Catalogue
- HIP 6492 · HD 8388
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