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Yed Posterior
Eps
Its story
Yed Posterior is «the rear hand» in Arabic, the hand the mythical Ophiuchus extends to grasp the serpent's tail. It is a yellow star resembling the Sun but older and more swollen, 107 light-years away. Its warm, golden light crosses a distance that takes a little over a century to traverse: the same span that separates radio from the first artificial satellite.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.23
- Distance
- 106.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 244.580° · Dec -4.693°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79882 · HD 146791
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