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hyg-118164
Binary systemIts story
Within the old Cetus, 88 light-years away, dances a binary F-type system: two yellow-white sisters bound by gravity. Its light set out around 1937, when Picasso was painting «Guernica» and Europe was peering into the abyss. Hotter than the Sun, with surfaces near 6,500 degrees, both share a common fate, orbiting one another for aeons.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 88.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 39.892° · Dec -11.871°
- Catalogue
- HYG 118164
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