Info on HR 5171 A ( Planet )

Name: V766 Centauri / HR 5171 A
Age: 1.5 MYR (Million Years)
Distance: 11,700 light years (3,600 pc)
Info: Is 1300 times bigger than the sun
Due to its size, it can be touching its companion star, and also known as a hyper giant. Recent discovery reads that HR 5171 has a little brother! The brother varies in brightness when observed, due to HR 5171’s companion star. The two stars orbit each other forming a binary system! However their centre’s are separated by more that the distance between earth and saturn. But HR 5171 A is so large that the two are touching.

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