hip-76207

Cool red star

Its story

It is a distant ember of M-type, cool and red, the kind of class found in aged or low-mass stars. Its light took about 1,149 years to arrive: it set out in the High Middle Ages, when Charlemagne was consolidating an empire in Western Europe. The distance demands patience: that light crossed the air so many human lives ago that counting them loses meaning. In the southern Lupus, it keeps a reddish and quiet pulse.

Constellation: Lupus
Apparent magnitude: 5.82
Distance: 1148.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 233.507° · Dec -40.066°
Catalogue: HIP 76207 · HD 138505

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