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- Aniara
Aniara
HD 102956
Aniara is an orange giant, in the constellation Ursa Major. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1614.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Too faint for the naked eye: you’ll need binoculars. Apparent magnitude 7.86.
What it’s like
It gives off 10.0 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 4,800 degrees.
It is 411.8 light years away: 3896 trillion kilometres.