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hip-97081
Cool red starIts story
This red light left Cygnus around the year 1456, when Gutenberg was finishing the 42-line Bible and Constantinople had fallen to the Ottomans just three years earlier. It is an M-type star, cool and reddish, at an advanced stage of its stellar life. The Swan —with its arms spread across the Milky Way— is for many the most elegant silhouette of the northern summer sky.
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 570.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 295.938° · Dec 41.773°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97081 · HD 186619
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