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hip-19343
Variable starIts story
48 Persei belongs to the family of so-called Be stars: blue giants that spin so fast they fling glowing rings of gas into space. That turmoil explains its long-recorded flickers in brightness, catalogued for decades as a restless variable. Its light travels nearly five centuries before reaching Perseus, where it sits quietly aside from the glare of Mirfak.
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.96
- Distance
- 476.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 62.165° · Dec 47.713°
- Catalogue
- HIP 19343 · HD 25940
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