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HD 50002

HD 50002 (HR 2536) is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation Volans. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent magnitude of 6.09 and is located at a distance of 708 light years. However, it is drifting further with a heliocentric radial velocity of 5.1 km/s.

HD 50002 has a classification of K3 III, indicating that it is a red giant. HD 50002 has a comparable mass to the Sun, but has expanded to an enlarged radius of 27.9 R. It radiates at 257 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,444 K, giving an orange hue. HD 50002 is metal enriched, with 166% the abundance of heavy metals compared to the Sun, and has a projected rotational velocity too low to be measured accurately.

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