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hip-70492
Highly luminous starIts story
A white luminary in Circinus, the modest constellation of the compass traced by Lacaille beside Triangulum Australe. The light arriving tonight travelled 2,026 years —it departed in the years when Augustus was consolidating the first Roman Empire. An A-type giant, white and luminous, far brighter than the Sun yet still disciplined in its fusion.
- Constellation
- Circinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 2026.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 216.276° · Dec -68.195°
- Catalogue
- HIP 70492 · HD 125835
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