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Xi-2
Its story
Xi-2 Librae is an orange K-type giant about 549 light-years away, in the ancient Scales —to the Romans an emblem of justice, to the Greeks part of the Scorpion's claws. Its spectral type marks a star already old, swollen and cooled from its blue past; what we see tonight is the long autumn of a sun that was once hotter and whiter.
- Constellation
- Libra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.48
- Distance
- 549.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 224.192° · Dec -11.410°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73133 · HD 131918
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