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hip-20713
Variable starIts story
71 Tauri belongs to the Hyades, the closest open cluster to us, lying about 160 light-years away. An F-type star, slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its light does not stay still: it pulses as a Delta Scuti variable, with subtle hour-long oscillations that betray waves crossing its interior. A star the ear cannot hear —but photometry listens to.
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.48
- Distance
- 160.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 66.586° · Dec 15.618°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20713 · HD 28052
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