hip-71974

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4 Librae shines in the Scales, the only inanimate sign of the zodiac. It is a blue B-type star around 497 light-years away, carrying the clean energy of suns burning well above 10,000 surface degrees. Its light departed around 1530, during the Renaissance —while Copernicus had still not published the heliocentric system.

Constellation: Libra
Apparent magnitude: 5.70
Distance: 497.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 220.806° · Dec -24.998°
Catalogue: HIP 71974 · HD 129433

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