Rho Cassiopeiae

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Rho Cassiopeiae is a yellow hypergiant star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Its name is a Bayer designation, pronounced . This star is about 8,000 light-years (2,500 pc) distant, yet can still be seen by the naked eye as it is over 300,000 times brighter than the Sun.

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