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hip-102624
Variable starIts story
3 Aquarii is a cool, swollen M-type red giant whose brightness drifts slowly across the months —a stellar respiration that astronomers tag as variability. Its reddish light travels close to five hundred and eighty-six years before reaching the figure of Aquarius, the water-bearer. When those photons set out, the first European books were still being pressed from movable type.
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.43
- Distance
- 585.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 311.934° · Dec -5.028°
- Catalogue
- HIP 102624 · HD 198026
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