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Aldebaran
Alp
Variable starIts story
Aldebaran, 'the follower' in Arabic, has chased the Pleiades across the sky of Taurus for as long as humans have looked up, glowing as the bull's burning eye. Its orange, faintly variable K-giant light once guided Persian and Babylonian astronomers. The distance is modest — barely 67 light-years — which is why it feels so close: tonight you see the glow it cast around 1959.
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 0.87
- Distance
- 66.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 68.980° · Dec 16.509°
- Catalogue
- HIP 21421 · HD 29139
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