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Nu
Variable starIts story
Nu Tucanae is a variable red giant, cool and vast, about 290 light-years away in the southern Toucan. M-type stars like it breathe slowly: their radius swells and contracts over long periods, modulating brightness in whispers. In a sky populated by the Small Magellanic Cloud, its deep redness adds a warm tone to the scene.
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.91
- Distance
- 290.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 338.250° · Dec -61.982°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111310 · HD 213442
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