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Its story
Sun-like yet distant, this G-type star hides in Apus, the bird of paradise of the southern sky. The light we see tonight left its surface 329 years ago: it set out as Newton was finishing the printing of the Principia Mathematica and gravity, for the first time, had an equation.
- Constellation
- Apus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 329.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 223.306° · Dec -73.190°
- Catalogue
- HIP 72833 · HD 130458
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