Ursa Minor Beta
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Home of the Hitchhiker's Guide offices in Ursa Minor. A publishing planet where editorial panic is a renewable resource.
Host: Polaris
Polaris
Yellow supergiant near the north celestial pole, long used as the North Star. It is a Cepheid-like variable with fainter companions in the same system.
Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.
- ID
- HIP 11767
- Distance
- 132.63 pc · 432.6 ly
- Parallax
- 7.54 mas (Hipparcos)
- Magnitude (G)
- 2.11
- Color (BP-RP)
- -
- Radius
- unknown
- RA · Dec
- 37.95° · 89.26°
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.
- Worlds on map
- 4
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