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hip-69373
Cool red starIts story
Near the Lesser Bear, almost grazing the celestial north, a red giant agonises with dignity 428 light-years away. Its light set out around 1597, when Tycho Brahe was finishing his catalogues at Uraniborg without a telescope, only with bronze quadrants. Cool M-type stars are enormous swollen bonfires: a thousand Suns fit inside their volume, and still they shine redder than any sunrise.
- Constellation
- Ursa Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.18
- Distance
- 428.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 213.017° · Dec 69.433°
- Catalogue
- HIP 69373 · HD 124730
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