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hip-35611
Variable starIts story
In Canis Major, where Sirius blazes with its close brilliance, hides this B-class blue variable at nearly two thousand five hundred light-years. Its light departed around the year 460 BCE, in the Athens of Pericles, when Phidias was directing the works of the Parthenon. Hot, massive and shifting in brightness, it crosses the southern firmament like a slow heartbeat inherited from classical antiquity.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 2490.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 110.229° · Dec -26.964°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35611 · HD 57593
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