Episode 1585
19 Aurigae
Sun, 2021-Sep-05 02:15 UTC
Length - 2:04
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Sunday, 5 September 2021 is 19 Aurigae.
19 Aurigae is a single star located approximately 3,600 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.05. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 4.3 km/s. This is an evolved A-type bright giant star with a stellar classification of A5 II+. It is a variable star of unknown type that ranges in magnitude from 5.03 down to 5.09. This star is an estimated 36 million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 8 km/s. It has 8 times the mass of the Sun and about 15 times the Sun's radius. 19 Aurigae is radiating 7,057 times the total luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,300 K.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:15 UTC on Sunday, 5 September 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see 19 Aurigae on Wikipedia.
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