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Its story
Libra was invented as an independent zodiacal constellation only in Roman times, carved from the claws of Scorpio. There shines this orange giant, four hundred and seventy-two light-years away. Its light left the star around 1553, when Philip II was not yet king and the Protestant Reformation was shaking the heart of Europe. K-type, lukewarm brightness, no theatrics: a star with just enough weight to hold the scales.
- Constellation
- Libra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 472.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 229.096° · Dec -22.399°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74732 · HD 135534
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