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hip-91004
Highly luminous starIts story
24 Sagittarii is an orange K3III giant 129 times the Sun's radius and 3,728 times its luminosity, despite a cooler effective temperature near 3,966 K. It shines from very far away —2,065 light-years, among the most distant in this set— and is approaching the Sun at 2.3 km per second. Its light set out at the dawn of the Iron Age.
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.49
- Distance
- 2064.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 278.473° · Dec -24.032°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91004 · HD 171115
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