Iot

Variable star

Its story

Iota Phoenicis is a white A-type variable about two hundred and fifty light-years away. Its brightness shifts in subtle ways that betray physical processes in its outer layers, common to stars of its temperature and stage. It nestles in the wing of the bird reborn from its ashes —a constellation added in the sixteenth century by the navigators who first charted the southern skies.

Constellation: Phoenix
Apparent magnitude: 4.69
Distance: 248.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 353.769° · Dec -42.615°
Catalogue: HIP 116389 · HD 221760

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