Kapteyn's Star
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kapteyn-s-star-219-1305741
title:
Kapteyn's Star
text:
Kapteyn's Star is a class M1 red subdwarf about 12.83 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Pictor; it is the closest halo star to the Solar System. With an apparent magnitude of nearly 9, it is visible through binoculars or a telescope. Its diameter is 30% of the Sun's, but its luminosity just 1.2% that of the Sun. It may have once been part of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, itself the likely core of a dwarf galaxy swallowed up by the Milky Way in the distant past. The disc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Subdwarf star in the constellation Pictor
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapteyn%27s_Star
date created:
2003-04-04T08:31:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T10:24:10Z
main entity:
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