hip-13121

Variable star

Its story

White and gently variable, this A-type star of Aries rides the spring-sky ram. Its light took 397 years to cross the void: it set out around 1629, while Velázquez was painting his first Sevillian still-lifes and Spanish painting was learning to let light slip in through the cracks.

Constellation: Aries
Apparent magnitude: 5.89
Distance: 397.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 42.191° · Dec 25.188°
Catalogue: HIP 13121 · HD 17471

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