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hip-84425
Its story
In the stellar heart of Scorpius shines an extraordinarily nearby yellow star, about 100 light-years away. Its light set out around 1926, when Schrödinger was formulating his celebrated equation and quantum mechanics found its modern language. Its colour, much like the Sun's, makes it a distant relative of our own star, separated only by the vast reach of space.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 99.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 258.900° · Dec -38.594°
- Catalogue
- HIP 84425 · HD 155826
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