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5 Tauri

Binary star system in the constellation Taurus

Binary star system in the constellation Taurus

| b-v = +1.09 | u-b = +0.95 5 Tauri is a binary star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus, located approximately 530 light years from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.14. It is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +14 km/s.

This is a spectroscopic binary with a period of 960 days and an eccentricity of about 0.4.{{cite journal

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