hip-26064

Variable star

Its story

120 Tauri is a Be-type star 1,553 light-years out, surrounded by a disc of gas it sheds itself as it spins at dizzying speeds. Tagged as a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable —V960 Tauri— its brightness flickers faintly with a period of about one day. A blue siren slowly losing matter through its equator, in one of the far reaches of Taurus.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.67
Distance: 1553.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 83.382° · Dec 18.540°
Catalogue: HIP 26064 · HD 36576

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