hip-35626

Variable star

Its story

The Great Dog —Canis Major, Orion’s faithful companion— hosts this red variable M-type giant, cool on the stellar scale and pulsing in brightness, 640 light-years away. Its light set out around 1386, just as Chaucer was beginning to write The Canterbury Tales. The magnitude 5.87 flickering tonight is a reddish echo of nascent English, preserved alive through the cold of space.

Constellation: Canis Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.87
Distance: 639.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 110.268° · Dec -25.892°
Catalogue: HIP 35626 · HD 57615

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