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50 Cancri is a single star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located 183 light years away from the Sun. It has the Bayer designation A Cancri; 50 Cancri is the Flamsteed designation. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.89. The star is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 23 km/s, having come to within 118 light-years some 1.2 million years ago.

This is a chemically peculiar A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A1 Vp. It is a Lambda Boötis star displaying strongly-depleted iron peak and alpha process elements, but otherwise relatively normal solar abundances. The star shows no variability down to a detection limit of 1.6 millimagnitudes. It is 264 million years old with a relatively low projected rotational velocity of 18 km/s. 50 Cancri has 2.1 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 11 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,340 K.

50 Cancri has an infrared excess, which most likely indicates a debris disk in orbit around the host star. A blackbody model of the emission shows a two component fit, with the warm section having a temperature of 246±91 K at a radius of 4±3 AU from the star, and a cool component at 108±21 K with a separation of 22±8 AU.

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v t e Constellation of Cancer
Cancer in Chinese astronomy List of stars in Cancer
Stars	Bayer α (Acubens) β (Tarf) γ (Asellus Borealis) δ (Asellus Australis) ε (Meleph) ζ (Tegmine) ζ η θ ι κ λ (Piautos) μ μ ν ξ (Nahn) ο ο π π ρ (Copernicus) ρ σ σ σ τ υ υ φ φ χ ψ ψ ω ω Flamsteed 1 3 5 7 8 11 12 15 20 (d) 21 24 25 (d) 27 28 (CX) 29 34 35 36 (c) 37 38 39 40 42 44 45 (A) 46 49 (b) 50 (A) 53 54 57 60 61 66 67 68 70 71 75 78 79 80 83 Variable R X RS VZ AZ DX EI HL HM HD 72945 72946 73534 (Gakyid) 79498 Other GJ 3470 (Kaewkosin) HIP 41378 K2-187 LHS 2090 Pr0211 WD J0914+1914 YBP 1194
Exoplanets 55 Cancri b c d e f β Cancri b GJ 3470 b HD 73534 b HIP 41378 b c d e f Pr0201 b
Star clusters Beehive Cluster Messier 67
Nebulae Abell 30 Abell 31
Galaxies	NGC 2503 2535 2536 2608 2623 2648 2775 2801 2803 2804 2812 Other 3C 191 3C 212 3C 215 DLA0817g IC 2431 OJ 287 QSO B0839+187 UGC 4457 4C +29.30 SDSS J0849+1114
Galaxy clusters Abell 671 Musket Ball Cluster
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• A-type main-sequence stars
• Lambda Boötis stars
• Cancer (constellation)
• Bayer objects
• Durchmusterung objects
• Flamsteed objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects