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Zet
Its story
Zeta Ursae Minoris sits at the northwest corner of the Little Dipper's bowl, closest to the handle. It is a white main-sequence star, young at just 180 million years, surrounded by a cold dust disk detected in the infrared at roughly 42 astronomical units. The light arriving tonight set out 369 years ago, when Kepler's telescopes were still a novelty.
- Constellation
- Ursa Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.29
- Distance
- 369.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 236.014° · Dec 77.794°
- Catalogue
- HIP 77055 · HD 142105
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