hip-37915

Variable star

Its story

A blue-white variable in Puppis, distant and scalding. Her light has been travelling 591 years: it broke free in the Renaissance, when Brunelleschi was solving the dome of Florence and Gutenberg was experimenting with the printing press. Variable B stars are rare and bright —their visible pulse reminding us that no star is truly stable, only seemingly so on human time scales.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.87
Distance: 590.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 116.544° · Dec -37.934°
Catalogue: HIP 37915 · HD 63215

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