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hip-84177
Cool red starIts story
37 Ophiuchi is an M-type red giant more than a thousand light-years away, meaning its intrinsic brightness must be enormous to remain visible to the naked eye from such a distance. It hangs in vast Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer that embraces the celestial equator and through which the Sun passes each November. Its light has been travelling since before the first European cathedrals were built.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.32
- Distance
- 1091.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 258.116° · Dec 10.585°
- Catalogue
- HIP 84177 · HD 155644
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