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hip-11348
Variable starIts story
In Cetus, the celestial whale, a white variable A-type star shines at about 251 light-years. Its light set out around 1775, the very year the American War of Independence broke out and the geopolitics of the Atlantic was redrawn. Its surface hovers around 9000 degrees, hotter and brighter than the Sun; its glow shifts slightly over time, marking a slow, intimate rhythm in the night sky.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 251.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 36.501° · Dec -15.341°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11348 · HD 15144
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