hip-7251

Highly luminous star

Its story

Deep within Cassiopeia pulses an extraordinarily luminous orange giant 2,204 light-years from us. Its light departed around the year 178 BCE, when the Han dynasty was consolidating its power across China and opening the Silk Road. Cooler than the Sun, it is yet thousands of times brighter: an aged orange colossus whose radiance crosses millennia.

Constellation: Cassiopeia
Apparent magnitude: 5.69
Distance: 2204.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 23.357° · Dec 58.327°
Catalogue: HIP 7251 · HD 9352

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