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Its story

4 Centauri is a hierarchical quadruple system. Its primary is a blue-white B-type subgiant with a spectroscopic companion locked in a 6.93-day orbit; the secondary is an Am star, also a spectroscopic binary, on a 4.84-day cycle. Four suns tangled in days-long dances, some 640 light-years away, near the southern edge of Centaurus. Their combined luminosity comfortably exceeds 700 times the Sun's.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 4.75
Distance: 637.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 208.302° · Dec -31.928°
Catalogue: HIP 67786 · HD 120955

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