ARICNS data Constellation Norma | Magnitude 4.02 Apparent magnitude (V) 4.02 | |
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Gamma2 Normae (γ2 Nor) is the brightest star in the constellation Norma. Its apparent magnitude is 4.02. Located 129 ± 1 light-years away from Earth, it is a yellow giant of spectral type G8III around 2 to 2.5 times as massive as the Sun that has swollen to a diameter 10 times that of the Sun. It is itself a close optical double, with a magnitude 10 companion star related by line of sight only.
γ1 Nor is a nearby star nearly a magnitude fainter.
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