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hip-72290
Its story
A yellow G-type star in Lupus, a distant cousin of our Sun but brighter and more evolved. Its light began the journey around 1766, while James Cook was preparing his first expedition to the Pacific. G-type giants like this belong to the most welcoming group when imagining worlds around them, though none are known here: in that temperate band of colour, the light resembles earthly midday.
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.22
- Distance
- 259.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 221.755° · Dec -52.384°
- Catalogue
- HIP 72290 · HD 129893
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