hip-22565

Variable star

Its story

97 Tauri is a white A-type star on the flank of the Bull, slightly variable: its brightness oscillates with the pulse of an unsteady atmosphere. About 167 light-years away, its light left around 1859, when Darwin was publishing On the Origin of Species. That faint intrinsic flicker, almost imperceptible, makes of it a small astronomical machine endlessly repeating a single luminous gesture.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.08
Distance: 167.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 72.844° · Dec 18.840°
Catalogue: HIP 22565 · HD 30780

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