Alternate Names

IL Lupi

Type

Stellar mass

Location

In the constellation Lupus

Distance

25,000 light-years (7500 parsecs)

Mass

9 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly equal to the size of a large city

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk

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Artist’s concept of Uhuru, the spacecraft that discovered 4U 1543-47. [NASA]

This document was last modified: March 14, 2012.