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Its story
50 Sagittarii lies far off, toward the centre of the Galaxy, in the direction where the densest star clouds of the summer sky pile up. It is an orange K-type giant whose warm, golden light travels 432 years before reaching us. It set out when Galileo was publishing the Sidereus Nuncius, the first telescopic observations of Jupiter and the Milky Way.
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.57
- Distance
- 431.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 291.580° · Dec -21.777°
- Catalogue
- HIP 95564 · HD 182629
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