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hip-35951
Variable starIts story
Within the Greater Dog, beside the trail of Sirius, beats a blue variable star of type B whose light is never twice the same. Its glow travelled 937 years: it left around 1089, as Urban II was preparing in Rome the Synod of Piacenza, prelude to the First Crusade. Far hotter than the Sun, it pulses like a distant lighthouse breathing in silence.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.18
- Distance
- 937.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 111.167° · Dec -16.201°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35951 · HD 58343
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