Star in the constellation Auriga
62 Aurigae is a star located 559[ 1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga .[ 5] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.02.[ 2] This object is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +25 km/s.[ 1] It is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2 III,[ 3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then expanded to 22[ 1] times the Sun's radius . 62 Aurigae is radiating 167[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,389 K.[ 1]
References
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