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hip-25945
Variable starIts story
Known as CE Tauri and nicknamed the «Ruby Star» for its fiery hue, 119 Tauri is among the deepest-red naked-eye stars in the sky, surpassed only by Mu Cephei. It is a semi-regular M2 supergiant whose radius reaches nearly six hundred suns —placed where the Sun stands, it would swallow the orbit of Mars. Its light, released almost eighteen centuries ago, crossed space while the western Roman Empire still endured.
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.32
- Distance
- 1792.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 83.053° · Dec 18.594°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25945 · HD 36389
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