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hip-72582
Its story
In Boötes, the guardian of the Plough, glows an orange K-type giant 210 light-years away. Its golden light set out when Napoleon, freshly defeated at Waterloo, was carried into exile on Saint Helena. Cooler than the Sun but far larger, it long ago swelled into a calm, lukewarm flame that accompanies the celestial herdsman on his slow turn around the pole.
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.47
- Distance
- 209.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 222.624° · Dec 37.272°
- Catalogue
- HIP 72582 · HD 131111
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