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hip-38159
Variable starIts story
Puppis returns, and class B with it: a variable blue white star whose brightness shifts to its own rhythm. Its light has been traveling for almost 1930 years. When it set out, the Roman Empire lived under Hadrian and his legions still raised walls in Britain. That light crossed empires, crises, famines, discoveries, knowing none of them, and arrives now with the same slow flicker.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 1930.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 117.304° · Dec -46.858°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38159 · HD 63949
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