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- Gumala
Gumala
HD 179949
Gumala is a yellow-white star, in the constellation Sagittarius. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1936.
Where to find it
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 6.25.
What it’s like
It gives off 2.1 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 6,200 degrees.
It is 89.9 light years away: 850 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1936: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.