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hip-101475
Variable starIts story
In the Swan, Cygnus, beats a blue-white variable type-B star 431 light-years away. Its light set out in the early seventeenth century, when Cervantes published the second part of Don Quixote and European Baroque spread its wings. Hotter and more massive than the Sun, its brightness oscillates like a stellar sigh —an electric glow that flickers among the feathers of the northern firmament's bird.
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 431.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 308.479° · Dec 46.694°
- Catalogue
- HIP 101475 · HD 196178
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