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hip-39070
Variable starIts story
In Carina burns an M-type star, red and vast, far cooler than the Sun yet far larger; its brightness wavers slowly like a cosmic breath. Its light began its journey almost a millennium ago, when eleventh-century Chinese astronomers recorded the supernova that would make the Crab Nebula famous. It arrives now with that same millennial patience.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.19
- Distance
- 982.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 119.906° · Dec -60.587°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39070 · HD 66342
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