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Star HIP 33609

Binary star HIP 33609 is located 495 light years away from the Sun. It consists of a blue-white star and a brown dwarf. For now, there are no known exoplanets in this star system.
Sun distance
495 light years
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HIP 33609 A

Blue-white star

Location

Ascension iconRight ascension: 6h 58m 59.976s
Declination iconDeclination: -47° 1' 24.121'' (southern hemisphere)
Parallax iconParallax: 6.584
Distance iconSun distance: 495.372 ly | 151.9 pc

Basic characteristic

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Mass: 238.3 % M Sun | 2496 M Jupiter
radius icon
Size: 186 % R Sun | 18.5 R Jupiter
temperature iconTemperature: 10400 K | 1.8 T Sun
time iconAge: 0.153 billions years | 0.03 Sun
(No known exoplanets yet)

Photometry

Magnitude iconApparent magnitude (V): 7.3
Magnitude iconAbsolute magnitude (V): 1.4
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K
2.1
H
1.6
J
1.2
Grp
0.8
I
0.8
G
0.6
V
0.5
Gbp
0.5
B
0.4
U
0.3
Absolute stellar magnitude in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared (K band) to ultraviolet (U band).

HIP 33609 B

Brown dwarf

Location

Distance iconDistance from the primary: 0.3058 AU

Basic characteristic

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Mass: 6.5 % M Sun | 68 M Jupiter
radius icon
Size: 16 % R Sun | 1.6 R Jupiter
(No known exoplanets yet)
More about HIP 33609
      HIP 33609 can be found in southern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is also observable from Northern America, Europe and Asia.
Other designations of this star
Gaia DR3 5557593814516968960, TOI-588, TIC 130415266, HD 52470, TYC 8122-01924-1, 2MASS J06585996-4701240
News from this star system
calendar icon03. 02 2023
tag iconBrown dwarfs
Article image:

HIP 33609 is the hottest star known to host a transiting brown dwarf

Astronomers found a brown dwarf in orbit of a bright B-type star HIP 33609. The host star has a radius 2.5 times bigger than the Sun and surface temperature above 10 000 °C. The newly found brown dwarf has about 7 % of the Sun's mass and about 16 % of its radius.

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