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hip-90606
Southern polar starIts story
This orange K-type star inhabits Octans the southern octant, the constellation that surrounds the southern celestial pole. Its light has traveled 388 years: it set out when Galileo was being condemned in Rome for defending the heliocentric system. Cooler than the Sun yet larger, it eternally turns near the invisible axis that orders the sky of the southern hemisphere.
- Constellation
- Octans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 388.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 277.333° · Dec -80.233°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90606 · HD 167714
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