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HD 153053

star in the constellation Ara

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ1747882 ↗
Source-derived summary

HD 153053 is double star in the southern constellation of Ara. The brighter component is an A-type main sequence star that may be evolving into a subgiant. It has a twelfth magnitude visual companion at an angular separation of 24.7″ along a position angle of 52°. Mostly likely the two are isolated stars that happen to lie near the same line of sight.

This star displays an excess emission of infrared radiation, suggesting the presence of a disk of dusty debris. This disk is orbiting at a radius of 49 AU from the host star.

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“HD 153053” enters the record as star in the constellation Ara. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what star and constellation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 95-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around star and constellation.
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“HD 153053” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, star and constellation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1747882. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “HD 153053” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.