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In Hercules, the great figure of the kneeling hero in the summer sky, shines an orange giant of warm tones. Its light set out around 1386, when Geoffrey Chaucer was beginning to write the Canterbury Tales. Cooler and far larger than the Sun, it moves serenely through its stellar maturity, golden and powerful, before the great transformations that lie ahead.

Constellation
Hercules
Apparent magnitude
5.93
Distance
639.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000)
RA 244.797° · Dec 49.038°
Catalogue
HIP 79953 · HD 147352

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