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Ups-2
Highly luminous starIts story
Upsilon-2 Centauri is a yellow F7 bright giant, nearly seven solar masses and around 3,900 times the Sun's luminosity. Its distance of about 1,270 light-years hides its true power behind a modest apparent glow. Place it where Sirius sits and it would rule the night sky. It belongs to a young generation barely 46 million years old, raised in the rich nursery of Centaurus.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.34
- Distance
- 1269.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 210.431° · Dec -45.603°
- Catalogue
- HIP 68523 · HD 122223
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