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Theta Librae
Star in the constellation Libra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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θ Librae, Latinised as Theta Librae, is a single[9] star in the southern zodiac constellation of Libra, near the constellation border with Scorpius. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.14.[2] The distance to this star is approximately 168 light years, as determined by parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 5 km/s.[5] The position of this star near the ecliptic means it is subject to lunar occultations.[10]
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This object is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of G9IIIb.[3] Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core, it has cooled and expanded; at present it has 12.3 times the girth of the Sun.[7] The star has an estimated mass about 47% greater than the Sun. It is radiating about 68 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 4,739 K.[7] It is probably on the red giant branch, which indicates it is generating energy through hydrogen fusion in a shell outside an inert helium core.[7] However, there is a 41% chance that it is a red clump giant on the horizontal branch,[2] which would mean it was somewhat older and less massive.[7] It has sometimes been classified spectroscopically as a subgiant, but detailed study shows that it is too cool and luminous to be on the subgiant branch.[11]
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