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hip-8230
Its story
In Cetus, the whale that watches the shores of the sky, glows an orange K-type giant 551 light-years away. Its warm light set out when Leonardo da Vinci was laying the last brushstrokes of The Last Supper in Milan. Cooler than the Sun yet swollen and luminous, it offers a golden gleam amid the dark waters of the great sea-creature.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.37
- Distance
- 551.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 26.497° · Dec -5.733°
- Catalogue
- HIP 8230 · HD 10824
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