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Its story
9 Herculis is an orange giant about three hundred and ninety-seven light-years away, in the figure of the kneeling hero holding his club. Its K-type glow, deep and warm as an ember, marks a star that has already exhausted its core hydrogen and swollen to sizes the Sun will only reach billions of years from now. Hercules holds many jewels: this is one of the calmest.
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 397.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 243.314° · Dec 5.021°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79488 · HD 145892
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