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Cool red starIts story
87 Virginis is a red M-type giant set at 677 light-years inside Virgo, the second largest constellation in the sky. Its cool atmosphere radiates the unmistakable ruddy tone of late-stage stars, swollen tens of times beyond the Sun. Virgo hosts a monstrous cluster of galaxies sixty million light-years away; this giant, by contrast, sits comfortably within our own Milky Way.
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.41
- Distance
- 676.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 206.856° · Dec -17.860°
- Catalogue
- HIP 67288 · HD 120052
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