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hip-99968
Highly luminous starIts story
In the heart of the Swan, an orange giant of exceptional luminosity gleams 1,575 light-years away. Its light was born around the year 450, when Attila's Huns were descending into Gaul and the Roman Empire was crumbling. A luminous K of this calibre is already a cosmic grandmother: it has spent its central hydrogen and now swells, multiplying the Sun's brightness hundreds of times over.
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.27
- Distance
- 1575.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 304.230° · Dec 40.365°
- Catalogue
- HIP 99968 · HD 193092
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