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hip-90991
Its story
This white light left Scutum in the 19th century, when refracting telescopes were growing in size and the first modern observatories were rising. It is an A-type star, hot and bluish-white, several times more luminous than the Sun. Scutum is a small constellation, yet it is crossed by one of the densest and brightest regions of the visible Milky Way.
- Constellation
- Scutum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 227.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 278.413° · Dec -14.854°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90991 · HD 171130
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