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hip-26063
Variable starIts story
Within the belt of Orion lives a blue B-type variable star whose light took 1469 years to reach us. It set out when the legions of the Western Roman Empire were vanishing under Odoacer and Rome was changing hands. Its glow swells and fades like breath: sometimes sharper, sometimes more veiled, in a slow rhythm that astronomy measures in days.
- Constellation
- Orion
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 1469.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 83.381° · Dec -1.156°
- Catalogue
- HIP 26063 · HD 36695
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