Kap

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Its story

Kappa Aquilae is a colossus hidden inside Aquila: a blue hypergiant of fifteen solar masses, fifty-two thousand times more luminous than the Sun, only eleven million years old. From over sixteen hundred light-years away its light reaches us faint —a mere spark— yet that spark is one of the great beacons of the galaxy.

Constellation: Aquila
Apparent magnitude: 4.93
Distance: 1681.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 294.223° · Dec -7.027°
Catalogue: HIP 96483 · HD 184915

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