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- Object type
- s*r
- Spectral type
- M2-5Ia
- Distance
- 61,078 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00016616782635470173
- Coordinates
- RA 251.7725° · Dec -45.8435°
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Westerlund 1
- Constellation
- Ara
- Distance from Earth
- 11500
- Radius
- 1530
- Image
- Westerlund 1.jpg
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- right ascension
- 251.77252653864880
- declination
- -45.84350230546150
- parallax
- 0.6798
- luminosity
- 340000
- time of discovery or invention
- 1961-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Bengt Westerlund
- apparent magnitude
- 1.35
- radial velocity
- -49.42
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5940106041452150272
- spectral class
- M5-6Ia
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.910
- declination component of proper motion
- -4.481
- age estimated by a dating method
- 7.9
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