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hip-98162
Its story
59 Sagittarii is a bright orange giant lying close to the galactic plane, a single degree from Omega Sagittarii. It belongs to that rare class of stars that have swollen to roughly a hundred solar radii: an aging Sun at monumental scale. Its light crosses some eight hundred years to reach us; when it departed, the Gothic cathedrals of Europe were barely beginning to rise.
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.54
- Distance
- 832.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 299.237° · Dec -27.170°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98162 · HD 188603
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