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hip-83254
Highly luminous starIts story
In the heroic constellation Hercules burns an orange K-type giant, an immensely luminous star whose brightness betrays its colossal distance. Its light slipped free about 3,107 years ago, when the Sea Peoples were shaking the eastern Mediterranean and the first Phoenician alphabets were sailing between ports. That light is older than most of written history, and yet it still arrives tonight.
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 3106.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 255.242° · Dec 22.632°
- Catalogue
- HIP 83254 · HD 153834
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