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hip-66681
Its story
Centaurus shelters this yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun. Its beam set out around 1799, when Alessandro Volta presented the first electric battery and opened the century of electricity. A light that crossed 226 years of technological progress before finally rising above the southern horizon.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 226.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 205.045° · Dec -64.577°
- Catalogue
- HIP 66681 · HD 118666
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