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hip-1158
Variable starIts story
In quiet Cetus blinks a red variable giant of class M. The light now reaching us departed around 1444, when Gutenberg was perfecting the movable-type press and Cosimo de' Medici was nurturing early Florentine humanism. The star breathes: its brightness rises and falls in slow cycles like those of a deep-water creature, a reminder that many lights of the Milky Way pulse rather than hold steady.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.13
- Distance
- 582.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 3.615° · Dec -7.781°
- Catalogue
- HIP 1158 · HD 1014
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