Betelgeuse Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Home system of Ford Prefect, a Betelgeusian researcher for the Guide. A red supergiant neighborhood with more than one head's worth of local politics.
Host: Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse
Red supergiant on Orion's shoulder, famous for its size and slow brightness changes. It is among the largest stars known and may end its life as a supernova.
Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.
- ID
- HIP 27989
- Distance
- 152.67 pc · 497.9 ly
- Parallax
- 6.55 mas (Hipparcos)
- Magnitude (G)
- 0.50
- Color (BP-RP)
- -
- Radius
- unknown
- RA · Dec
- 88.79° · 7.41°
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams's galaxy on a few real sky anchors. Earth, Betelgeuse, Magrathea in the Horsehead Nebula, and the Guide's offices in Ursa Minor.
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