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hip-78970
Its story
178.7 light-years to the south, in Lupus, the wolf devoured by the celestial hunters since Sumerian times. The light arriving tonight set out around 1847, just as Le Verrier was calculating Neptune's position before any telescope ever saw it. A whitish yellow F-type star, slightly hotter than the Sun.
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 178.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 241.818° · Dec -36.756°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78970 · HD 144415
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