Star profile
Nu 2 Lupi
Nearby starWhat is Nu 2 Lupi
Nu-2 Lupi is one of the great jewels of exoplanet hunters: just 48 light-years away, this yellow G-type star analogous to the Sun hosts a confirmed system of several worlds first detected by radial velocity and later refined through transit observations. It belongs to the small handful of nearby planetary systems where the density of the planets has been measured directly, allowing scientists to begin guessing at the composition of their atmospheres: rock, water, gas. A laboratory of a star.
Where it is and when to see it
Nu 2 Lupi lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Nu 2 Lupi
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.65
- Distance
- 48.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 230.453° · Dec -48.318°
- Catalogue
- HIP 75181 · HD 136352
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Other stars in Lupus
Lupus has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lupi2.30
- Beta Lupi2.68
- Gamma Lupi2.80
- Xi 2 Lupi5.59
- HIP 772865.61
- HIP 731115.62
- Kappa 2 Lupi5.70
- HIP 789705.72