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hip-79881
Its story
A white A-type beacon rests in Scorpius, about 135 light-years away. Its light set out around 1891, the year Tesla patented the coil that bears his name —and arrives today as a clean white, free of warm tones. It is hotter and denser than the Sun, a sheet of cold light stretched between the Scorpion's claws.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.80
- Distance
- 134.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 244.575° · Dec -28.614°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79881 · HD 146624
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