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hip-24019
Variable starIts story
In Taurus, neighbour to the red Aldebaran, a white A-class sun with variable brightness pulses 171.6 light-years away. Its faint throb reminds us that, seen up close, stars are almost never still. The light we now perceive departed when Lord Rosse's telescopes in Ireland were beginning to reveal the spiral shape of the first nebulae, then called «island universes».
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 171.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 77.438° · Dec 28.030°
- Catalogue
- HIP 24019 · HD 33204
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