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Its story
Nu Ophiuchi is an orange K-type giant about 150 light-years away, set within the vast body of the Serpent Bearer. Long-term radial-velocity surveys have uncovered substellar companions of very high mass orbiting it —drifting along the blurred frontier between giant exoplanet and brown dwarf—, making it a rare laboratory for the formation of massive worlds around aging suns.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.32
- Distance
- 150.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 269.757° · Dec -9.774°
- Catalogue
- HIP 88048 · HD 163917
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