Kap-1

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Kappa-1 Lupi is the principal of a visible pair whose two stars stand 1,450 astronomical units apart—farther than the entire span of our planetary orbits. A blue-white star spinning fast enough to spin off a veil of gas, it travels with the Hyades stream, the same flow that carries the famous Taurus cluster. Its light arrives from 180 years past.

Constellation: Lupus
Apparent magnitude: 3.88
Distance: 180.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 227.984° · Dec -48.738°
Catalogue: HIP 74376 · HD 134481

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