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hip-79980
Its story
Near the stinger of Scorpius pulses a yellow-white class F star some 157 light-years away. Its light set out around 1868, the year Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer discovered helium while observing a total solar eclipse. A curious echo: a star born of that same cosmic fuel now arrives carrying the distant resonance of a finding that reshaped astrophysics forever.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 157.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 244.886° · Dec -30.907°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79980 · HD 146836
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