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72 Tauri
Star in the constellation of Taurus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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72 Tauri (abbreviated 72 Tau) is a possible binary star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.5, although only 0.29° from the brighter υ Tauri. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.9 mas seen from Earth, it is around 410 light years from the Sun.
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72 Tauri is a B-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of B7V.[3] With a mass of 3.48 M☉ and an estimated age of 38 million years,[8] it is 2.8 times the size of the Sun and 185 times its luminosity.[1]
Occasionally this star system is given the Bayer designation υ2 Tauri with υ Tauri, which is separated from it by 0.29° in the sky.[4] υ Tauri is a foreground star, the two are unrelated,[11] and although 72 Tauri lies near the Hyades open cluster, it is much further away.[1]
72 Tauri lies near the ecliptic and can be occulted by the moon. Observations of an occultation in 1985 showed that it was a binary star with the two components separated by 0.1″.[12] There has been no confirmation of this finding and other sources list the star as single.[13]
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